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Data Point Decoding the headlines with facts, figures, and numbers THEdge At the cutting edge of education and careers Health Matters Ramya Kannan writes to you on getting to good health, and staying there The Hindu On Books Books of the week, reviews, excerpts, new titles and features. The first thing you always notice about The Singh Twins, Amrit Kaur Singh and Rabindra Kaur Singh, is the riot of colours in their works, which draw on the collage style of Jahangiri muraqqas (albums). The second is the British miniature artists’ uniform of identical salwar suits.

As you step closer to their art, the deep research behind their works reveal themselves. They use the miniature style not simply as an inherited artistic tradition, but as a means of historical inquiry: layering research, symbolism, personal memory and political critique to question how the histories of the British empire are constructed and remembered. And all of it is done with a blend of wit, mischief and seriousness.

“I first saw The Singh Twins’ work in Delhi in 2005 and was really intrigued by it,” says Sunaina Anand, director of Art Alive. The twins’ work is part of the group exhibition, A Moment in the Monumental , celebrating the gallery’s 25th anniversary. “I planned a trip to Liverpool [a couple of years later to meet them] in their family home.

It was a heartwarming experience, interacting with them and engaging with their art. As contemporary British artists, their artistic practice is very powerful — looking at colonialism and Indian heritage through their distinct visual lens.” At their latest showcase, their digital mixed media works feature their signature jewel-toned detailing and rigorous historical research. In Golden Bird: Envy of the West , for instance, the central ‘goddess’ is an allegorical figure with a jewelled crown and a tiger at her feet, representing pre-colonial India.

She is surrounded by smaller vignettes ranging from Portuguese explorer Vasco da Gama to royalty, denoting a country with the world at her feet before the British arrived. Imperialism: By the Yardstick and Sword, with its warrior-like central figure — the tiger now in chains, a ruler stuck down its throat — highlights the impoverishment of India under western colonial expansion, especially the British. The third artwork, Brit-Asia: Making Our Mark, explores postcolonial identity and the contributions of the diaspora.

Earlier this year in April, larger versions of the three works (and others) were exhibited at Kew Gardens in the U.K. as the show Botanical Tales and Seeds of Empire. At a time when South Asians are grappling with their personal relationships with partition, division and imperialism, the sisters’ work forces you to return to the macro-view that a South Asian living in the U.K.

And by extension, the divide between the Global North and South at a time when we believe that the two are coming closer.

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