Art of Dislocation

The Art of Dislocation examines the rise of artistic collaboration amid growing conflicts within and between nation-states—Bangladesh, India, Pakistan, and Sri Lanka—in South Asia over a thirty-year period between 1994 and 2024. Through long-term observation and close analysis of artworks in multiple media, Sonal Khullar traces the emergence of languages, spaces, and institutions of art; discusses critiques of nationalism, militarism, and globalization; and elucidates their relationship to histories of modernism and modernity. She identifies a shared consciousness across cities and villages about the region as a site of violence and a zone of aesthetic and political possibility. With evocative and lucid prose, this book proposes new methods for writing art histories and cultural geographies and connecting art worlds in the global south and global north.