Navin Rawanchaikul

When travelling through Shoreditch design district, I came across the artist Navin  Rawanchaikul, his work was being exhibited in Rivington place. There was this amazing painting which was at least a metre long, with what looked like an ancestral painting of various types of asians. There was also a short documentary to go with the painting. The exhibition was about Pakistanis, (which was then India), who had fled the country during the civil war, they went to seek asylum in Nepal. What really took me by surprise is that on the outside they were Indian but were speaking Nepalese I just couldn't get my head around it it was fascinating. These people fully recognised them self as Nepalese, and India of a foreign land to them. Truly amazing, the level of detail in each persons face tells a story.

Mahakad 2010