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The Sun Never Sets
The Sun Never Sets, a performance where English daytime tea is served in seventy-one imperial white fine china tea cups and saucers, accompanied by classic Marie biscuits. The piece is initially taken as a regular refreshment table during the opening where the site was activated by the audience, taking and consuming tea. After a while the Bangash starts rinsing all the dirty cups and places them back in order.
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The symbolic references to seemingly banal and harmless activity of drinking tea refers to the colonial dynamics, 75+ tea cups symbolizes 75+ years post partition, the subaltern body is still serving tea, washing tea cups and putting them back in order; continuing the labor of keeping the white structure intact.






NIDA BANGASH
Visual Artist
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