red curtains opening by Nihaal Faizal

Description

“red curtains opening” is the catalogue for Nihaal Faizal’s debut exhibition at Chatterjee & Lal, Mumbai. The catalogue features the photographic series ‘Landscape Photographs’ (2014), stills from the videos ‘red curtains opening’ (2015) and ‘four sexy girls hold a green screen at the beach’ (2015), and images representing the installation ‘Dummy’ (2021). The catalogue also includes an essay by Chinar Shah.

Nihaal Faizal’s works respond to the copy, the replica, the remake, the gadget, and the gimmick. He is based in Bangalore, India, where he founded Reliable Copy, a publishing house for works, projects, and writing by artists.