Vivek Vilasini’s last supper April 8, 2021, 9:59 PM IST Critic and Curator Uma Nair has been writing for the past 31 years on art and culture She has written as critic for Times of India and Economic Times. She believes that art is a progressive sojourn. And there are those who are taught and those who are self taught. She herself had learnt by looking at the best shows in Washington D.C. and New York. And life is about learning and growing... LESS... MORE A recent email about a series of Indian artists painting The Last Supper took me back to a few years ago when Vivek Vilasini’s dramatic photograph of Last Supper with 13 Kathakali dancers sitting at a table with the Kerala sadya on banana leaves drew admiration and smiles and gentle satirical banter at the India Art Fair in 2012. Vilasini did one more after that -he created a masterpiece with 13 burqa clad women and called it Last Supper -Gaza. It became a world wide comment on the place of the prophet of peace which was caught in the throes of war. I requested Vilasini to send me these two images to go back in time and relish the brilliance of wit and deeper tenets of perception in these two works.