21 Personae
21 Personae is an extension of the 51 Personae project curated by Raqs Media Collective for the 11th Shanghai Biennale (2016–17)
WORKS
Time Devices (2011- 2024)
“One question that stayed with us and has proven to continue getting exponentially more complex is that of time. The 90s had posed the scrambling of time in ideas of development, progress, or modernity.During that time, as very young people, we examined and re-examined what progress could even mean. We have, from then, been unpacking […]
Nerves
NervesShown at: ‘Not Yet at Ease’, FirstSite, Colchester, United Kingdom (2018) | ‘Spinal’, Frith Street Gallery, London, United Kingdom (2019) Mural, Text and Drawings transferred in Vinyl 140 meter long curving wall The bold blue colour that forms the ground of Nerves is inspired by the Hospital Blues uniform worn by convalescing soldiers in British military […]
The Assurance Clock & Toxicare
The clock in the poster is an embodiment of assurance, the opposite of alarm
To Ask, When Empty
A suite of six uniquely colourful lenticular prints offer a dance of terse imperatives at the intersection of will and necessity
Toxicity in Equal Measure
A singular array of surfaces in materials that range from leather to metal celebrate the essential instability of all substances
Re Run
n revisiting and re-staging Cartier Bresson’s photograph in Shanghai, Raqs meet the conditions of the self-fulfilling prophecy invoked by the event captured in the original image.
Twilight Language
Twilight Language signals a lighthouse semaphore for all that is lost and found between errant longitudes, infected histories and contagious futures. This is the time when everything changes; memorials defect, communards bake biscuits, moths mutate, divers rise, clocks speak in tongues. Animals, machines, and humans recover grounds of equality and conversation. Words turn incandescent, enigma shadows everything, twilight finds its language.
Dyeing Inayat Khan
With Dyeing Inayat Khan, Raqs extends their practice of intervening with video in archival and historical traces.
Memorophilia
Raqs opens by asking “Who is Memory For?” and invokes Plotinus to suggest memory lives for those who have forgotten . A chance encounter at Paris’s Musée Guimet before a Banteay Srei frieze evokes a paradoxical mix of estrangement and familiarity, tracing a narrative that began in 200 B.C. and traveled thousands of miles and […]
Night & Day, Day & Night
A 24 hour clock where the usual digits are displaced with words in the Devanagri script relating to varying scales of time.
Asankh/ Countless
The material infinitude that makes up the real world, Raqs argues, is a swirling, entangled mass of vital, corporeal wills to live and exist actualized as forms of matter and sentience
Lost in Search of Time
While retrieving the time gained in searching for all that is lost and found one can admit to a condition that one suspects that one shares with most people in the world today, of being lost, in search of time.
Plaques for Coronation Park
Circular plaques created as a part of Coronation Park (2015). They have inscribed statements adapted from George Orwell’s parable about the brittleness of Imperial authority, ‘Shooting an Elephant’ (1936)
The Museum of Lost Constellations
The Museum of Lost Constellations is an attempt to recover thirteen of them into memory through a set of objects that recall the names and lore connected to each lost constellation.
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