The G20 Art Project: Together We Art was a contemporary visual arts project, curated by Dr. Alka Pande, conceptualized by the Culture Working Group (CWG), Ministry of Culture, Government of India for India’s G20 Presidency, in collaboration with Bihar Museum. The exhibition was inaugurated on 7 August 2023, with the Bihar Museum Biennale. This effort of bringing together over 40 artists from India and the world together is a gentle reminder that beyond our individual identities and nationalities, we are all part of a shared human experience of an extended human family. 

In Isaac Chong Wai's video, referencing Käthe Kollwitz's woodcut Die Mütter, the performers sing lines from songs, including dirges and lullabies in various languages directed by musician Dagmar Aigner who has been working with mourners for over 10 years in Munich. Revolving around the ideas of death, birth and motherhood, the work, named after Kollwitz's woodcut, responds to the rhythm of histories marked by wartime experiences and places the grief engendered by Kollwitz into a trans-national discourse. 

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Image: Isaac Chong Wai, Die Mütter, 2022, 2 channel video, 14'01"
Video still courtesy: © Victoria Tomaschko, ifa-Institut für Auslandsbeziehungen
Commissioned by ifa-Galerie Berlin