Tantra: Enlightenment to Revolution.

The exhibition recreates a circular, roofless Yogini temple from 10th-century Tamil Nadu, India, using wall-mounted photographs and a video projection of Tantric texts set against a night sky. In one such I Weltbild i , a painted-silk scroll from 18 SP th sp -century Tibet, the blue-skinned Yidam Chakrasamvara clutches the red-skinned Vajrayogini in a ferocious sexual embrace (while one-upping the fierce Hindu god Bhairava and and Yogini Chamunda by trampling them). A final section shows the tradition's contemporary, daily face, but these photographs and videos of Tantrikas and their practices reveal little about their internal lives. [Extracted from the article]