Blog post / Playful Pastiche, Hybrid Subjects: David Kalal’s Diasporic Art

David Kalal.

Ala : A Kerala Studies Blog, November 2021.

Excerpt : There is also something wry in the way his work elevates and sentimentalizes its subjects that called out to me to come play with them’. New York-based artist David Dasharath Kalal takes us through selections from his ‘Ravi Varma Recreational Vehicle’ (RVRV) series combining the heavily reproduced work of Raja Ravi Varma, ever-familiar to the Malayali, with present-day South Asian Americans.

More info : http://ala.keralascholars.org/issues/39/david-kalals-diasporic-art/

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