A Sahib’s War – A conversation with Munish Wadhia and Åsa Bharathi Larsson

Thursday 9 June 2022

18.00 – 19:30

Fiberspace Gallery, Katarina Bangata 40, 116 39 Stockholm

This conversation between Munish Wadhia and Åsa Bharathi Larsson takes place within the frames of Samlande tankar/Collecting Thoughts. In this conversation, Wadhia and Bharathi Larsson, both of whose research weave in and out of print and printmaking, have a conversation about their common art practice/research. Munish Wadhia is an artist in residence as part of Samlande tankar/Collecting Thoughts and will in conversation with Åsa, share his research and work within the project, which amongst other things, includes acts of erasure in the construction of a particular and singular Swedish national identity. 

The title for the conversation, “A Sahib’s War”, is borrowed from Rudyard Kipling’s short story, in which Kipling writes about a Sikh soldier, Umr Singh, narrating and navigating the Second Boer War.  Grafikens Hus carries out the project Collecting Thoughts with the aim of looking at graphic collections in Sweden and internationally from a postcolonial and intersectional perspective. Collecting Thoughts is supported by the Swedish Arts Council.

Grafikens Hus carries out the project Samlande tankar/Collecting Thoughts with the aim of looking at graphic collections in Sweden and internationally from a postcolonial and intersectional perspective.

Samlande tankar/Collecting Thoughts is supported by the Swedish Arts Council.