A Letter to Amália Jyran, Who Will be Fifty-Four in 2061 CE
Text by Raqs, Published in ‘Imagine Being Here Now’ , (Catalogue/Reader) The Sixth Momentum Biennale, Mousse Publishing, 2011
Revoltage
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 (TO BE OPENED IN 2061)
Time Capsule, from 2011, is a time travel device which makes it possible for Raqs to claim its contemporaneity with the future
How to get from here to there
Seven photographic prints trace the journey of an illuminated vehicle across a liminal landscape
Rewriting on the wall
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
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.
Seen at Secunderabagh
Seen at SecunderabaghShown at: Koninklijke Vlaamse Schouwburg, Brussels (2011)| Festival d’Automne, Le Centquatre, Paris (2011) | Wiener Festwochen, Vienna Festival (2012) | Chronus Centre, Shanghai (2013) | National Gallery of Modern Art, New Delhi (2014) Performative installation with actors, video projection, sets With Zuleikha Chaudhari Seen at Secunderabagh unfolds as a meditation on history, image, and […]
We the Fuel
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
Proverbs is a series of textual sculptures that express a set of ambiguities about transactions and relationships
Whenever the Heart Skips a Beat
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.
36 Planes of Emotions
36 Planes of EmotionsShown at: Art Gallery of York University, Toronto (2011) | The Photographers’ Gallery, London (2012) | The Whitworth, Manchester (2017) |K21, Düsseldorf (2018) Laser engraved acrylic glass, furniture, lighting (180 x 150 x 60 cm)Graphic design: Amitabh Kumar + Satyabrata Ra 36 Planes of Emotions extends the palette of emotions to include states of […]
Reading Light
Reading Light Siege du Parti Communiste Francaise, Festival d’Automne, Paris (2011) Reading Light – the work presented by Raqs in Oscar Niemeyer’s iconic building for the French Communist Party at the Place Colonel Fabien – was a set of illuminated signs that use text, typography, light sources and electricity to conjure a renewal of human aspirations. […]
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