“…..Risham Syed’s work in “Metropolyptical: A Tale of a City” is quietly political. Housed in Mumbai’s Project 88, Syed’s postcard-sized paintings and awkwardly large photo-based jacquards in their industrial frames evoke a sense of the haphazard growth Indian metros have seen in past few years, reviewing an increasingly common dystopian reality resonating beyond the struggles of the ideological and geographical definitions of India and Pakistan. It is a thought citizens of Mumbai can certainly identify with.”
