Bharti Kher’s Gurgaon studio is an imposing but starkly utilitarian structure that makes me think of Andy Warhol’s Factory. As you walk in, the first thing that arrests the eye is a giant staircase, poised precariously against the ceiling, and pierced by a couple of cartwheels. Women in saris are quietly sticking bindis on a solitary pillar on which a door leans. Two shattered mirrors, densely patterned with bindis, rest against the wall. Shrines, vitrines, chests of drawers, clothes hangers. you are surrounded by the fragments of an ordinary home, though variously defamiliarized. A headless skeleton lurks in a corner, a reminder perhaps of those metaphorical skeletons that remain hidden away in middle-class closets. Read more