part of a group show organized by Anant Art, at Bikaner House, Delhi, curated by Arushi Vats, 2-12 November 2022.
Mixed media. Wall Size: 15.6 ft x 54 ft (multiple images, posters, banners, drawings, video on a wall)
This composition is inspired by Kohei Saito’s work, “Capital, Nature, and The Unfinished Critique of Political Economy: Karl Marx’s Ecosocialism”. My investigation here is to attempt and compile different historical traces and contemporary events that question today’s capitalist mode of production and thereby attempting to create an inventory. “Capital contradicts the fundamental limitedness of natural forces and resources because of its drive towards infinite self-valorization”. Taking different notes as such from this book and other related content on the idea of metabolic rift, I delve with the question of forced labor, and their alienation of the self from this labor and its mean production. This set of work tries to capture different contradictions in relation to today's capitalist mining of natural resources. Furthermore, it attempts to underline the artistic mining tendency of subaltern experiences. Using different mediums; like videos, drawings, sketches from diary pages, banners, posters, book cover layout, and wall texts written by charcoal and ink, my work tries to bring together multiple layers to these concerns and contradictions.
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