Surface Tension Studies is a suite of photographs which considers making choices between unfathomable depth and a distant horizon, encountering the strong pull of submerged currents, the attractions of beaching on unnamed islands, and the modest comfort of anchorage
In early April 2009 the last of the distinctive Titan cranes from the Tyneside Swan Hunter shipyard in northern England were loaded up onto a heavy load vessel and sailed out of the River Tyne.Raqs treats found footage of the last voyage of the ship-building cranes down the Tyne river (shot by an engineer and amateur shipyard enthusiast) to create a world of passages, transitions and departures.
Skirmish is a brief, unhappy, love story with pictures and text, another of Raqs’ forays into the photo-roman form
Seven frames stand in for the seven days of the week. Each frame contains an assemblage of suspended objects.
Can You Say That Again? (5 Uneasy Pieces) features an intimate portable outdoor audio theater, framed by the “Exit” glyph of the walking man and the narration of five episodes of anchorage and dislocation. Part public furniture, part listening station.
Super-Duper Helter-Skelter Lego World is a map of the world in building blocks
The Things That Happen When Falling in Love brings together suggestions of words, and people on the move to create an image of a world where the fortunes of both love and labour are framed and dismantled by global forces.
On Earth as in HeavenShown at: “Ballard Estate”, Religare Arts Initiative, Atmaram Mansion, Scindia House Connaught Circus (2010) Découpé acylic stack, using transparent, translucent and acid orange sheets. Placed on mound with astro-grass covered stepsDimensions, 3 feet x 4 feet; 310cm x 91 cm x 155 cm (at highest point) On Earth As in Heaven […]
The Capital of Accumulation is a video installation that writes an oblique narrative of the relationship between metropolises and the world in counterpoint to Rosa Luxemburg’s exceptional critique of global political economy, ‘The Accumulation of Capital’.
Text by Raqs, published in ‘Curating and the Educational Turn’, edited by Paul O’Neill & Nick Wilson, Open Editions, De Appel, 2010
Brazen (2009) was displayed at The Audience and the Eavesdropper, Phillips de Pury, London and New York.
In the grounds of an abandoned steel furnace, in a city that once made the greatest amount of steel in the world
Text by Raqs, Published in Lalit Kala Conetmporary #52 (Journal), Photography as Art and Practice in India’,2012
he Surface of Each Day is a Different Planet builds sequential scenarios that move across time and space, while considering collectivity, anonymity and the question of identity through history, fantasy and speculation
Escapement invokes clockwork, emotions, geography, fantasy and time zones to ask what is contemporaneity – what does it mean to be living in these times, in these quickening hours, these accumulating minutes, these multiplying seconds, here, now?
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