On February 5th, 2009, the exhibition "Indian Popular Culture..... and beyond : The Untold (the rise of) Schisms" will open at the historical building of Sala Alcalá 31 in Madrid. The exhibition will coincide with the focus on India by ARCO 2009.

This will be the first time such a critical appraisal and reading of Asian popular culture for a Spanish audience has been presented. This exhibition provides an interrogatory and critical glimpse of the explosion of popular visual culture in India and beyond.

The further assessment of 'Orientalism', as a framing trope of the non-European other, also allows a reframing and understanding of the role of 'exoticism' in relationship to held notions of 'truth'.
The Untold provides an important platform upon which to base an understanding of how the popular can be used in the construction of both nationalism and religion-based ideologies by exploring the use and history of image manipulation; significant factors when considering the intrinsic instrumentalisation that has been used to transform democratic and secular societies.

Shaheen merali