Reserve Army

The sculptural installation The Reserve Army examines the intersection of a personal artistic practice (in this case, that of the early 20th Century Indian sculptor Ram Kinkar Baij) with the construction of icons to represent the newly independent nation-state, as well as the rather clumsy union of Modernism and a traditional, folkloric Indian culture.

Unusually Adrift from the Shoreline

Unusually Adrift From the Shoreline is a work about darkness, light, navigation and memory. Centred on a cinema lost to time, it is intended to prompt unfamiliar thoughts in the city. Thoughts and feelings about the pleasures and the hidden perils of losing oneself: in movies, at sea, and in the oceanic expanse of time.

Unfamiliar Tales

Unfamiliar Tales is a pair of image-text diptychs titled ‘How The Most Terrible Solitude Was Overcome’ and ‘How the Long Wait for the Thaw was Endured’

Sarai Reader 08: Fear

Modernity once promised liberation from fear. We live amidst mobile populations, hidden terrors, financial tremors, and subtle uncertainties. From the air we breathe to the financial systems we trust, everything is threaded with disclaimers and doubts. Sarai Reader 08 leans into this pervasive anxiety—tracking how floods, riots, and crises expose our fragile infrastructures and inner lives. […]

Fact, Facticity and the Imagination

Presentation at Kunstlerhaus Buchsenhausen, Innsbruck. Excerpts published as ‘The First Information Report : On the Documentary Attitude in Contemporary Art Practice’ by Raqs Media Collective in ‘The Archive: Documents of Contemporary Art’, Edited by Charles Merewether. Published by the Whitechapel Gallery, London, 2006 & in Texte Zur Kunst, September 2003 (edited by Karin Gludovatz and […]

Anonymous Steel Worker

Every factory has a time book. The time book is an index of the value of a worker’s time. It records hours, minutes and money, and acts as the memory machine of a factory.

DisOrient

A fragment of faux classical Greek statuary, an extended arm, stretches across the plane of a poster, traversing a laterally inverted map of Europe, pointing away, below a band of flat colors, an array of would-be flags

INSURANCE % INVESTMENT

Insurance%Investment illustrates the mental arithmetic of investment and insurance, two mechanisms designed to administer, anticipate and forestall risk, speculation and the possibility of failure.

Sightings & Four Figures

Sightings is a photographic experiment with decaying architecture that suggests cartographic resonances. While, Four Figures works out four ways of making sense of today’s world, mapping a frontier between precarity and possibility.

1986

Four standard issue wall clocks, with their hands arrested at the digits 1, 9, 8, and 6. Together, they point to 1986