The Imaginary Institution of India Art at the Barbican

Sometimes, it’s possible to visit an art exhibition and come out thinking it was full of interesting art but also leave baffled by what you’ve just seen.That’s the difficulty with a group exhibition at the Barbican of Indian artists chosen because their work fits into a narrow 23-year period of Indian history. Described as roughly chronological, ranging from 1975 to 1998, and also slightly thematic, it’s a very disjointed exhibition.
It was made worse by their odd decisio