Mr Malhotra's Party
In the 1980's I made constructed documentary images of gay men in architectural spaces in Delhi (Exiles series.) Now people are meeting less in parks etc, and more on the net, and in places like "private" parties. I am trying to visualise this latest virtual queer space by a series of portraits of 'real' people who identify their sexuality as 'queer' in some way. This time they are willing to identify themselves. They are guests of an imaginary party, I'm calling it "Mr Malhotra's Party".
* Gay nights at local clubs in Delhi are always sign-posted as private parties in a fictitious person's name to get around the law; Section 377, a British colonial law, which still criminalises homosexuality in India. Mr Malhotra is is the ubiquitous Punjabi refugee who arrived post partition and contributed to the development of the city.
* Gay nights at local clubs in Delhi are always sign-posted as private parties in a fictitious person's name to get around the law; Section 377, a British colonial law, which still criminalises homosexuality in India. Mr Malhotra is is the ubiquitous Punjabi refugee who arrived post partition and contributed to the development of the city.
