Titles (2012) appropriates two titles of 17th C Indian miniatures. The Indian miniature paintings in finely printed catalogues illustrating archives, museums and ethnographic collections often come with titles that attempt to capture the significance of the painting. These titles are mainly determined by curators or scholars, sometimes dealers, to translate oriental art for western understanding. They can often be reductionist, even absurd. In Titles, I reference two titles without the image to provoke an ‘imagining’ to create your own reality. It also plays upon the arbitrariness of the process that is involved in similar attempts of translation.
