Hyderabad




Maqtha Art District
Located next to the Hussain Sagar lake - one of Hyderabad’s prime locations, the Maqtha neighbourhood provided us with the ideal setting to initiate work on the vision of St+art Hyderabad 2016 - to make the city’s public spaces more interactive. 11 artworks were created in the neighbourhood by national and international artists over a month. Upon completion of artworks, the neighbourhood was launched as India’s third, open-for-all, public art district. More artworks were added to the area in the subsequent editions of the festival.


Artvertising
Street artists Daku and Dia Mehta Bhupal collaborated to create a temporary installation spread across 9 advertising hoardings in key commuter-friendly parts of Hyderabad. The project sought to make an art-centric intervention to deal with the city’s ‘visual pollution’. Designed as an anti-consumerist wake up call, the installation was a commentary on the umpteen advertising hoardings that had taken over the city, altering its outlook.