Archive for the 'Visual Culture' Category
November 26th, 2009
For Creative Review subscribers, the December Monograph features around 20 pages of my Indian Matchbox collection. Here is the blurb written for the intro…
Matchboxes from the Subcontinent. Walking around Bangalore city where I live you will come across matchboxes everywhere. Cheap and disposable, they litter the highways and footpaths, and are scattered around any [...]
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October 29th, 2009
A one minute video sketch I made in collaboration with Smriti Mehra for cityoneminutes.org has been selected for a presentation at Lumineus Amersfoort. From 11 November to 30 December 2009 the old town of Amersfoort, Netherlands, will be illuminated accompanied by a city tour along 10 contemporary art works/multimedia installations in public space. The One [...]
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September 5th, 2009
Just added to my site an ongoing series of photographs exploring the relationship between iconic, large scale advertising billboards and the surrounding environments in which they are situated. These photographs were taken in Bangalore, Varanasi and Kerala, India.
See the full series here.
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August 22nd, 2009
Have just added a new series to my website. These photographs of mannequins were taken during the past year or so in both Bangalore and London. The full series is here.
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August 2nd, 2009
The three one minute films I made recently in collaboration with Smriti Mehra for Bangalore’s City One Minutes project have now been added the cityoneminutes.org website. You can check out these films alongside the contributions of other artists who have represented an hour of Bangalore life within one minute…
Our one minute video sketches were shot [...]
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August 2nd, 2009
These photographs of Kolam designs are from a series I have been photographing over the past few months in the area around my street in Yelahanka, Bangalore.
A common sight on South Indian suburban streets, Kolams are made with rice powder. Drawn outside the entrance, they are thought to bestow prosperity on the home. The symmetrical [...]
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June 27th, 2009
See the personal impressions of city life which artists across the globe have filmed. Follow what happens from hour to hour in more than hundred cities on cityoneminutes.org. In City One Minutes life in each city is divided into 24 one minute portraits, each depicting one hour of the day. Every film is a personal [...]
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