First day first show (Installation View)
Balaji Maheshwar2018
Chennai Photo Biennale
Chennai, India
Balaji Maheshwar's showcase at Art Houz during Chennai Photo Biennale 2019. “Religion is the opium of the masses and sigh of the oppressed.” says Karl Marx. In Tamilnadu, Cinema is a religion. Tamilnadu has a close link between its politics and its cinema. Cinema has always remained a propaganda tool here. In this project, 'First-Day-First-Show' I try to understand how the idea of masculinity is propagated through cinema in the form of heroism and how fans revere their on-screen idols. I have been part of the same crowd when I was in school and college. I have experienced First-Day-First-Show as a cinema fanatic and not as a photographer.
- Title: First day first show (Installation View)
- Creator: Balaji Maheshwar
- Date Created: 2018
- Location: Art Houz, Chennai
- Type: Photograph
- Original Source: Artist Website
- External Link: See more at Chennai Photo Biennale's website
- Exhibition title: I Love Cinema
- Exhibition Description: Its all about cinephilia.
- CPB Edition: 2019
- Artist's biography: Balaji Maheshwar, as an artist, identifies himself by the name ‘Raskolnikov’. He is a Photographer as well as an Independent Film maker from Chennai. He has been working on his photobook ‘Dear Cinema’ for the past five years and is also presently working on a feature length documentary titled ‘Thalaivar’ based on Tamil Cinema and Politics.
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