DAVID DASHARATH KALAL
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Playful Pastiche, Hybrid Subjects: David Kalal’s Diasporic Art 

ALA (അല) A Kerala Studies Blog       
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30TH NOVEMBER 2021  ISSUE 39

New York-based artist David Dasharath Kalal takes us through selections from his “Ravi Varma Recreational Vehicle”(RVRV) series combining the heavily reproduced work of Raja Ravi Varma, ever-familiar to the Malayali, with present-day South Asian Americans.

David Kalal: I was working as a video artist when I started making these portraits back in the early 2000s, and these were amusements on the side from my ‘main’ work.  (Read the whole article here)​

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  • HOME
  • Paint
  • Animate
    • Fox Fur
    • Relephant
    • Bed of Thorns
    • Enamored Artists
    • Put out more flags
    • Signal to Noise
    • Fire Temple
    • FORBES LIST
    • Browbeaten
    • STOP SHOOTING US.A.Fghanistan
    • Persistent Framing
  • VIDEO
    • Anglophobia
    • Electroclash Wojnarowicz
    • Navy Pink
    • MIdnight Sun Maxi Mantra
    • Economist Descending a Staircase
    • Rather Wild Chauffeur
  • PROJECTS
    • HANNAH ARENDT QUITS SMOKING
    • Queering the Region
    • CRISIS RESIDENCY
    • MIX Festival >
      • ARTIST PANEL
    • Phyllis Baldino: In-Between Theories >
      • Interview
    • LUBA DROZD: IN-BETWEEN THEORIES >
      • Interview
  • CV