The Sassoon Dock Art Project was an experiential exhibition organized in the unconventional space of one of the busiest docks in the city of Mumbai - the Sassoon Docks. The 144 year old site was converted into an urban art exhibition, which remapped the DNA of Mumbai for two months. The exhibition hosted artists to create installations, audio-visual experiences, murals, screenings and curated tours that were site specific. It was an attempt to encourage the city’s residents to understand and take note of the cultural and historical significance of the space and its inhabitants
Sassoon Dog
A series of art installations at Sassoon Dock, Mumbai
Faizan Khatri was one of the 24 artists selected from across the globe to display Art at the Sassoon Dock Art Project. He chose to construct a series of installations as an insert into the physical space of the docks. The Sassoon Dog works with undertones of the condition of animals caught up in the contemporary urban scenario. Perceived through the lens of the many stray dogs, which “We see when we want to, and don’t when we don’t “. The installations driven by this simplicity – occur at different areas of the venue. Spaces untouched, corners, behind things, at the edge of - in an analogy to the same spatial conditions that occur in our day-to-day experiences of the urbanity of a typical cityscape.
The sculpt draws references from ‘Zinneke Pis’ in Brussels, ‘Bad Dog’ by Richard Jackson, and works of David Uzozie Anomneze
TeamFaizan Khatri, Baqer Mehdiyan, Zia-ul-Haq, Sanchita Pawar, Shashank Ahuja, Bharat Sharma, Vinit Nikumbh, Keyur Shah, Osamez Khan, Anubhav Borgohain, Elahay Saboonchi, Tanisha Sheth, Samir Raut, Siddhesh Kadam
Build credits: Arthat
One is guided through a larger context laid out with recurrences, constantly reminding the viewer of this act. This then unfolds into the last installation provoking the thought:
“Are we pissing on ‘Our Collective Urban’; a beautiful world inherited equally by us all?”
“Can you look away?”
“Can you smell it?”
“I see it when I want to, I don’t when I don’t.”
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St+art India (read start) is a not-for-profit organization founded in 2014 with the intent of making art more democratic, and for all. By taking art out of the conventional spaces such as museums and galleries, instead embedding it within the spaces we inhabit and navigate every day, St+art explores the synergy between art and its ability to transcend socio-cultural barriers and lead to exchange of ideas through unique and collectively shared experiences in public space.