Practice is the daily ‘work’ (as verb) of art. It represents the sum of all the moves – practical, conceptual, affective, cognitive, philosophical, analytical and aesthetic – that occupies/de-occupies the state of our triangulation at any given point of time. Being contingent, this practice is a shape-shifting thing, prone to surprise itself as much it surprises others. Like a mycelial inhabitation, indeterminate and unbounded, it expands.
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Revoltage Shown at: Project 88, Mumbai (2010) | Festival d’Automne, Espace Oscar Niemeyer, Paris (2011) | Art Unlimited Basel (2012) | Tel Aviv Museum (2012) | Zentrum für Internationale Lichtkunst, Unna (2014) | National Gallery of Modern Art, New Delhi (2014) Text, lightbulbs, fixtures, acrylic, wire, synchroniser Revoltage fills the space it occupies with warmth, […]
Time Capsule, from 2011, is a time travel device which makes it possible for Raqs to claim its contemporaneity with the future
Seven photographic prints trace the journey of an illuminated vehicle across a liminal landscape
In Rewriting On the Wall, hand-prints are reconfigured to produce an alphabet of gestures—each a gloss of the letters in standard American Sign Language as used by the deaf community.
More Salt In Your Tears first presented as a text sculpture composed of three dimensional stainless steel letter-forms anchored on to a shallow section of seabed of the Baltic Sea near Turku, Finland.
We the Fuel | 2011 9 framed photographs, tape residue (210 x 180 cm) A collage made with treated film posters and dental X-rays Premonition, Experimenter Gallery, Kolkata (2011); Helsinki Photography Biennale, Finland (2014)
Proverbs is a series of textual sculptures that express a set of ambiguities about transactions and relationships
Whenever the Heart Skips a Beat is an animation presenting a clock-face with changing word couplings – instead of numbers – in order to reference the passing of hours.
An Afternoon Unregistered on the Richter Scale is a looped video projection of an archived photographic image in which a room full of surveyors is transformed through a series of subtle alterations
36 Planes of Emotions extends the palette of emotions to include states of collective potential.
‘Strikes at Time’ is a lucid dream. It takes readings from an occasional anonymous journal, and a long walk at the edge of the city of the night to take back the night.
In Misadventures of A Phantom Limb Raqs gives form to this spectre as a shadowy, liquid trace of an arm
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