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Artist: Astha Butail

Museum: Devi Art Foundation (Gurgaon, India)

Technique: Photograph

A painful strength, an invisible anti-sun, a forced source of energy, a shadow of spiritual light - the Black Sun appears in the oldest oral traditions of the world. It is mentioned in the Rig Veda along with Martand, the mortal egg. This symbolism of the twin, the conflict of the opposites, as also the unity of opposites, is deeply significant. Paralleled in ancient Greek wisdom, the analogy of the twin can be extended to any plane: like the Vedic twin sisters, Usha and Ratri (day and night); or the vertices of a particular frame or a set of co-ordinates changing from one to another;