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Flexing Muscles
Flexing Muscles brings together an essay in English and Kannada by Ravikumar Kashi, reflecting on his observations of the medium, format and content of political flex banners in Bangalore.
Book • 2019
Flexing Muscles documents and analyzes the flex-banner culture and visual politics of public display in Bangalore, combining photographs, commentary, and the artist's observations.
Kashi examines how public imagery signals power, identity, and aspiration, using the ubiquitous flex banners as primary material.
The book blends field documentation with reflections on iconography, representation, and social change in urban India.
Through close observation and visual analysis, it reveals how grassroots visual practices register broader political and social shifts.
The work serves both as an archive and a critical provocation about popular visual culture and civic life.
Kashi examines how public imagery signals power, identity, and aspiration, using the ubiquitous flex banners as primary material.
The book blends field documentation with reflections on iconography, representation, and social change in urban India.
Through close observation and visual analysis, it reveals how grassroots visual practices register broader political and social shifts.
The work serves both as an archive and a critical provocation about popular visual culture and civic life.
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