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A new multi-media, mobile art installation. Reinventing select vestiges from India’s vast artistic, cultural, and religious traditions within a contemporary context, The Sweet Shop is a mobile art installation that takes place throughout the exterior and interior of a refurbished school bus. The project’s premise involves using the universal language of art as a “vehicle” for sharing the artist’s perspective on vibrant aspects of Indian culture with a broad audience by taking art OUT of the gallery and INTO the streets. For the last few years, Pratima Naithani has traveled to different regions of India, from north to south, drawn to the relationship of sweet shops and truck art as vivid, colorful barometers of Indian street culture, finding commonality in their sensory appeal as fertile forms for creative expression. Her documentation of these experiences in the form of photographs, video, and sound samples have been translated into a series of 21 mixed-media works (uv digital digital silkscreen on canvas, acrylic painting with mirror work applied to the canvas) ranging from 2ft x 3ft to 3ft x 5ft. For more information on The Sweet Shop, please visit www.pratimanaithani.com/sweet.

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A) Untitled I (1)


2010
The Sweet Shop Installation
Photo

B) Untitled II (2)


2010
The Sweet Shop Installation
Photo

C) Untitled VIII (8)


2005-2007
Mixed Media Works on Paper
3ft x 4ft

D) Untitled I (1)


2010
Mixed Media works on canvas (uv digital silkscreen, painting, and mirror work),Unique/one of a kind
3ft x 5ft

E) Untitled II (2)


2010
Mixed Media works on canvas (uv digital silkscreen, painting, and mirror work),Unique/one of a kind
3ft x 5ft

F) Untitled XI (11)


2010
Mixed Media works on canvas (uv digital silkscreen, painting, and mirror work),Unique/one of a kind
2ft x 3ft

G) Untitled X (10)


2010
Mixed Media works on canvas (uv digital silkscreen, painting, and mirror work),Unique/one of a kind
2ft x 3ft

H) Untitled XII (12)


2010
Mixed Media works on canvas (uv digital silkscreen, painting, and mirror work),Unique/one of a kind
2ft x 3ft