With their signature style of "Punjabi baroque," Indian artistic duo Thukral & Tagra transform UCCA's Middle Room into a playing field on which marriage, tradition and global ambitions collide.

The concept is playful – the ancient Indian sport of Kabbadi being played in a middleclass living room – but the subject matter is intensely serious. Match Fixed is a biting satire of arranged marriages in India's northern state of Punjab, where many young men emigrate abroad to establish successful careers and return home briefly to enter into arranged matches with "suitable" local girls. All too often, these unions result in the groom running off with the dowry and the wife left at home, to the chagrin of her family, awaiting a visa and plane ticket that never arrive.

Featuring life-sized "human trophies," gilt-wrapped television sets playing interviews with abandoned wives, ceiling fans hung with paternal pagri (turbans) and "runaway husbands" glimpsed through airplane windows, Match Fixed is a rococo rendering of real-life sorrow.

- Jérôme Sans, UCCA Director

Indian artist team Thukral and Tagra present a magnetic feast for the eyes, surrounding viewers with the fabulously consumerist-based space of Match Fixed . Although firmly anchored in the transitional and complex society of their birth, their product-driven voice flows through the circuits of our international consciousness. They eloquently mix high art with low art, design with formal art standards, and ornate objects with everyday products in this "dream-come-true" of commercial culture.

In Thukral and Tagra's installation we see artistic aloofness dissipate into a frenzy of inclusive, iconic cues. Jumbled together with the tragic plight of young brides, the artists paint a fascinating portrait of the new exploding middleclass of India. Their exhibition serves as a heartbreaking case study of how international dreams have deteriorated the fabric of hometown culture. Playful, fascinatingly colorful, attractive by all aesthetic standards, yet biting in the story it has to tell, this exhibition is not a passive discourse, but an argument, a proposition, a conversation and an environment that transforms the viewer into an interlocutor of globalized India.

- Zheng Yan, UCCA Art Department Director