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The duo of Jiten Thukral and Sumir Tagra dabble in both fine and commercial art, design, production and application. Their collaborative work extends over a wide range of genres and media including painting, sculpture, installation, video art, music, graphic design, product design and interior design, and addresses several issues facing the growing urban population of India.

"The production of Thukral & Tagra [as they have branded... The duo of Jiten Thukral and Sumir Tagra dabble in both fine and commercial art, design, production and application. Their collaborative work extends over a wide range of genres and media including painting, sculpture, installation, video art, music, graphic design, product design and interior design, and addresses several issues facing the growing urban population of India.

"The production of Thukral & Tagra [as they have branded themselves] strives for a rootless cosmopolitanism, an instigation to infect all manner of communication with an unexpected sparkle, in the process making life more marvelous. This strategy, inherently democratic, allows for both the most rarified of products (the unique painting) to co-exist with the most humble (stickers and buttons given away for free). Commodification is piously acknowledged and then made into a mockery of itself ("I Shop Therefore I Am.")" (Peter Nagy, "The Alluring Snare of Deceptive Scenographies", Thukral & Tagra, Nature Morte, New Delhi, and Bose Pacia, New York, 2008, pg. 9)

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