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november 11, 2021 - Moma
MoMA Announces The Project of Independence: Architectures of Decolonization in South Asia
NEW YORK, November 10, 2021
— The Museum of Modern Art announces The Project of Independence: Architectures of Decolonization in South Asia, 1947–1985, an exhibition that will explore the ways modern architecture in the region gave shape and expression to idealistic societal visions and emancipatory politics of the post-independence period.
On view from February 20, 2022, through July 2, 2022, this exhibition will comprise over 200 works, including original sketches, drawings, photographs, films, audiovisual components, and architectural models, sourced primarily from prominent lenders and institutions in
Bangladesh, India, Pakistan, and Sri Lanka.
The featured projects by key figures such as Balkrishna V. Doshi (India), the only South Asian winner of the Pritzker Prize in Architecture; Minnette de Silva, the first woman to become a licensed architect in Sri Lanka; and Yasmeen Lari, the first woman to qualify as architect in Pakistan, to name a few will address how architecture mediated the process of decolonization and modernization for these emerging nation-states.
The Project of Independence is organized by Martino Stierli, The Philip Johnson Chief Curator of Architecture and Design, Anoma Pieris, guest curator and Professor, The University of Melbourne, and Sean Anderson, former Associate Curator, with Evangelos Kotsioris,
Assistant Curator, Department of Architecture and Design.
The curatorial team consulted with leading scholars of modern architecture from the region, many of whom also contributed to the accompanying exhibition catalogue.
This exhibition will cast a new light on the culture of modern architecture in South Asia, focusing on India, Pakistan, Bangladesh, and SriLanka, in the first decades after independence from colonial rule in 1947/48, in which modern architecture was a significant agent of progressive societal transformation.
By focusing on the prolific and diverse work conceived and realized by local, rather than international, architects, designers, and planners, The Project of Independence will consider the region’s architectural production as an active force in the drive for independence and selfdetermination.
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