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First Take 2024

Pushpa Kumari: Celebrating Vulnerability and Connection in Art as a Winner of First Take 2024

Pushpa Kumari holding her First Take 2024 award, standing in front of a backdrop featuring the First Take 2024 logo and the abir brand.

Pushpa Kumari, an emerging contemporary artist from Bokaro, Jharkhand, is one of the 10 winners of First Take 2024. Pushpa’s work is embedded in the very complexities of a system that is inherently patriarchal, and it reflects her experiences as a woman and the obstacles that have shaped her views on society. Pushpa hailed from […]

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Avijit Dutta: Winner of First Take 2024, Capturing Howrah’s Industrial Landscape Through Surreal Art

Avijit Dutta, a participant holding a certificate and trophy at the First Take event organized by Abir.

As one of the 10 winners of the prestigious First Take 2024, Avijit Dutta also stands as a significant artist in today’s Indian art scene. Born in 1997 in the industrial town of Howrah, West Bengal, he was raised in an atmosphere where the grim realities of industrialisation and its toll on humans and the

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Countdown Begins: 2 Days to Go for the Eighth Edition of First Take at Ahmedabad’s Hutheesing Visual Art Centre!

The eagerly anticipated First Take 2024 is scheduled to begin on November 24th, 2024  at the Hutheesing Visual Art Centre, Ahmedabad, marking the eighth edition of this esteemed event. The week-long exhibition culminates on 30th Nov’24. Artists from across India are invited to participate and showcase their work. The festival not only celebrates art but also brings

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