34 35 ARTLINES 3 | 2025 The God of Small Things THE GOD OF SMALL THINGS FAITH AND POPULAR CULTURE Drawing its title from the evocative Booker Prize-winning novel by Arundhati Roy, a new exhibition at QAG explores the juxtaposition of religious and vernacular iconographies in art and popular culture. While the exhibition centres on a rare collection of embellished oleographs by Indian artist Raja Ravi Varma (1848–1906), which arrives in September, the gallery space currently features an early showing of complementary works drawn from the Gallery’s holdings of contemporary Asian art, introduced here by Reuben Keehan. Opposite and above Santiago Bose / Faith and science in the time of AIDS, apologies to Dr Jose Rizal (details) 1996–97 / Purchased 1998. QAG Foundation Grant
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