Aradhana Seth is a filmmaker, artist and photographer, whose work has been widely exhibited and celebrated in major galleries and publications across India. She has worked as a production designer on over fifteen feature films - The Darjeeling Limited, London Has Fallen, The Bourne Supremacy - and has directed several documentaries, including DAM/AGE: A Film with Arundhati Roy. In her work, she pays particular attention to the visual language of everyday life and has collaborated with artists to recreate expressions of local culture on film sets and in art galleries. SADAK presents part of Seth’s vast archive over the last decades, a visual itinerary through the historical and economic changes in Indian society - comprising a multitude of hand-painted signs across the country’s urban landscape, on shutters, doors, walls, signalling everything from commercial services to cultural themes and the natural landscape. Though this practice survives today in a vernacular culture quite distinct from large-scale digital productions, the paintings that emerge through Seth’s documentation are equally vivid and distinctly human in their expressions of globalised capitalism.
