The Means of Defiance

AN EXHIBITION CAPTURES F.N. SOUZA'S EXPERIMENTS WITH MAGAZINE PAGES THAT DISSOLVED INTO HAUNTING LANDSCAPES OF HIS UNTAMED IMAGINATION

- Arshia

There's a consensus that Francis Newton Souza was an outlier, straddling many a paradox throughout his life, including, but not limited to, his overtly stringent Catholic upbringing that barrelled into the primal eroticism of Hindu imagery. Between these contrasting worlds lies the artist's irreverence, which still enthrals, entertain, and even shocks admirers and naysayers alike.

Celebrating this spirit is Kolkata's Emami Art Gallery, with the ongoing exhibition