The Art of Modernity

This collection is based on 15-months of ethnographic research in Nepal as a part of my doctoral studies. My research is a study of how domestic moralities are intersubjectively revised in contemporary Nepal, and it uses the means of painting as an exploratory method of investigation. By touching on some selected case-studies, I use painting to explore the theme of the ‘good life’ (ramro jivana) and how this is realised through a revision of domestic patterns and moralities. In using art to analyse and bring out ethnographic findings, I draw upon an approach that I have developed over the last ten years under the name of ‘art-tool method’.