TARA BOOKS

Between Memory and Museum

This pioneering dialogue with 38 extraordinary folk and tribal artists from across India focusses on the idea of the museum. In their visual responses, artists reflect on the museum as an institution, and the way it preserves, creates and disseminates knowledge. Do these representations communicate a lived life? What are the artistsÍ own ways of remembering and passing on tradition? And finally: who has the power to put whom in a museum?