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Meet Waswo X Waswo and R Vijay, both perfectly ironic orientalist artists

American-Indian artist Waswo X Waswo is playful, ironic and profound by turns. Kishore Singh on his partnership with skilled miniaturist R Vijay

Waswo X Waswo
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Waswo’s meeting with Vijay was serendipitous. They decided to work together, Vijay agreeing to create a fresh language at Waswo’s bidding

Kishore Singh
Richard X Waswo – the artist most Indians know by his nom de plume, Waswo X Waswo – is an immersive orientalist at best, a subversive one at worst. He is someone with a lively sense of humour (but also a temper), an American-Indian artist who often places himself mise-en-scène in works made in collaboration with his counterparts in Udaipur. Waswo’s journey from America to India was foretold. “I grew up a bit of an Anglophile just via reading a lot of British literature in my youth,” he tells me. “Some days I would wish I had been born in

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