‘Me&You: In a dialogue’  is an invitation to co-author deconstruction of dominant discourses and the creation of plural narratives. Also, it's a disorganized sharing of my initial explorations towards my long-term artistic research project 'Naachnewali: The Dancing Girl'. The base of this work is the series of letters written by me to the legendary 19th-century Indian ‘tawaif’ performer (courtesan) - Umrao Jaan. De-exoticizing traditional eastern narratives; the letters unpack accounts of marginalization, colonialism, tribal nationalism, censorship, morality and politics in the arts. 

Photo: Reinout Bos