Siddhant Talwar

Biography

Siddhant Talwar is a twenty-one-year-old multidisciplinary artist from India. His work deals with her sense of self and his relationships with those around them. Talwar is really interested in digital cultures and communities and their effects on personal spheres, especially those dealing with sexuality and gender. Comfort is an overarching theme in their work, especially in their photo practice–documenting comfort. He also focuses on community building and organiszing in his work and often uses it to question the nation state. She is currently a senior in the Combined Degree program within the School of the Museum of Fine Arts at Tufts University. 

They have exhibited at Tisch Library (2020), Polykhroma (2020), School of the Museum of Fine Arts (2021, 2020, 2019), RSM Gallery (2018), The W. Van Alan Clark, Jr Library (2021), SMFA Terrace Gallery (2021). 

His work has been collected by The W. Van Alan Clark, Jr. Library, Tisch Library and Ed Kinsella (Private Collection).
 

Artist Statement

Dukaan is a project that explores the relationship between consumer cultures, advertising, capitalism, and the nation state at large. Taking India as a focus point, I explore the financial links between the highest earning corporations in the country and the government in power, the Bhartiya Janata Party. I further explore the fascism of the ruling state and think of new laws introduced by them as commodities. I do so by changing the contents of grocery store ads. I appropriate product packaging from the corporations and flip them on their head by using them to question the state. The packaging invokes a sense of nostalgia in the viewer, drawing them to it. The content of the packaging then tells them how this product is entangled in the BJP’s fascist mission of making India a Hindu State.