Shibu Natesan: Mirror Man, Mirror Me
Parul Dave Mukherji
Anushree Mukherjee is an arts professional, writer, project manager, and curatorial associate with Art Alive Gallery, based in the Delhi NCR. With over five years of experience
in the arts, her writing and curatorial practice engages deeply with the intersections of art, culture, and community, aiming to foster critical dialogue and audience engagement. She has previously written catalogue texts for emerging contemporary artists. Anushree holds a degree in Journalism from Lady Shri Ram College and a Master’s degree in Arts and Aesthetics from Jawaharlal Nehru University
Parul Dave-Mukherji is Dean and Professor at the School of Arts and Aesthetics, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi, India. She holds a PhD from Oxford University. Her publications span global art history, comparative aesthetics and contemporary Indian art. Her most recent publications are on 20th Century Indian Art (co-edited with Partha Mitter and Rakhee Balaram) published by Thames and Hudson 2022; “Decolonizing Art History” [with selection of Ananda K. Coomaraswamy’s “Why Exhibit Works of Art ?”], Why Art Criticism? A Reader. Eds. Beate Sontgen and Julia Voss Hatje Cantz: Berlin, 2022; “Artistic labour in dance and painting: revisiting the theory-practice debate via mimesis
(Anukrti) and the abject body”, South Asian History and Culture, Vol. 14, no. 2. Special issue. Eds. Urmimala Sarkar and Aishika Chakraborty, Routledge, 2023 and “Aesthetic
Repose (Visranti), Self and the Emerging Figure of the Rasika in Early Medieval India”, Assured Self, Restive Self:Encounters with Crisis, Ed. Prasanta Chakravarty, Bloomsbury: New Delhi, London, Oxford, 2023; “Mimicking Anthropologists Re-Memembering a Photo Archive via Pata Paintings Performative Mimesis and Photo Performance”, Another
Lens: Photography and the Emergence of Image Culture. Ed Rahaab Allana, Tulika Books: New Delhi & West Heavens Shanghai, 2024.