Featuring a cannon, a contemporary video installation, eighteenth-century paintings, and contemporary comic books, this exhibition explores history as the product of both fact and fiction.
Curated by Tom Eccles and Mark Rappolt, One Tiger or Another places a CGI animation by Singaporean artist Ho Tzu Nyen (b. 1976) alongside artifacts relating to the legend of Tipu Sultan, the eighteenth-century ruler also known as “the Tiger of Mysore,” one of the most famous and polarizing figures in South Asian history.
Expanding on themes introduced by Ho’s two-channel video, One or Several Tigers, 2018, and anchored by the story of Tipu Sultan, the exhibition explores the creative potential of art and media as a means of storytelling and the shaping and reshaping of identity. It also questions the boundaries between fact and fiction and between colonizer and colonized, and it looks at how the same story can be told and retold. In doing so, it challenges the idea that both history and art are about fixed and stable perspectives and conventional notions of centres and peripheries of power.
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Location: Mathaf: Arab Museum of Modern Art, Doha
Sunday through Saturday: 10 am – 8 pm
Note: Last entry to museums and galleries is 30 minutes prior to closure.
The permanent collection galleries at Mathaf will be closed until 10 November. The entire museum will be closed to the public on the following Education City Stadium match days:
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Source and image credit: Mathaf: Arab Museum of Modern Art, Doha
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