Jagdeep Raina in GQ India

August 3, 2021

4 new art shows in Mumbai to check out

By Shikha Sethi

Jhaveri Contemporary is on a roll. And its next show promises to hit all the right notes. Pairing two fresh new voices, Canadian-based artist Jagdeep Raina and UK-based artist Hardeep Pandhal, expect boldness, energy, acerbity and playful complexity.

Raina’s research-based mixed media works that bring together various strands of pop culture, including album covers, portraiture and phulkari embroidery, to explore the birth of bhangra music in the diaspora in the late 70s. (Prior to this, bhangra existed mostly as a dance form in Punjab). Created by working-class South Asian migrant labourers, who worked in the industrial factories of Britain – specifically Birmingham and the outskirts of London – bhangra music remixed traditional Punjabi folk with hip hop and reggae. The lyrics were often anti-colonial, anti-racist, and advocated for queer and feminist futures, with bhangra club culture creating inclusive spaces in a deeply divided society.

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