The Singh Twins unveil two new artworks revealing the wider story of a massacre
(Artdaily.org)

The large scale mixed media artworks are the final two panels of a 3 piece (triptych) artwork titled `Jallianwala:Repression and Retribution` created by contemporary British artists, The Singh Twins, in response to the Centenary this year of the Jallianwala Bagh or Amritsar massacre: an atrocity perpetrated on 13th April 1919 during British rule in India, under orders of Brigadier-General Reginald Dyer, in which hundreds of Indian civilians who had gathered in a park (known as Jallianwala) to protest the introduction of draconian racist laws, were left dead and dying after being fired upon, without warning by British troops. Whilst the central panel of the Twin`s triptych (launched earlier this year at Manchester Museum) focused on the massacre itself which took place in the city of Amritsar in the North-West province of Punjab, the two new works (representing the left and right side panels of the triptych) largely explore the historical context, aftermath and legacies of this event w