Peer2Politics

The Art Gallery of New South Wales is currently exhibiting a monumental work from Jitish Kallat, “Public Notice 2”. It reproduces a foundational speech from Gandhi pronounced on March 11, 1930 calling for civil disobedience. The text is reproduced in large letters made of bones; embracing the symbolism of the Mahatma’s words, relics to be exhumed in our barbaric post-modern world.

“You must not lose faith in humanity. Humanity is an ocean; if a few drops of the ocean are dirty, the ocean does not become dirty.” “The difference between what we do and what we are capable of doing would...