Rashid Rana

Mumbai

There are many worlds in our one planet. The political, the religious, the economic, and the social: all these spheres seem to collide, contradict, conflict, converge and combine with each other. It is a process that can be traced from ancient history to the globalized present. In Rashid Rana’s work these worlds, with their distinct views, come close to forming another parallel entity, one that is both rooted and yet exists independently from the artist’s surroundings. This might be understood in terms of the physical, the psychological or the virtual. Multiple visuals derived from diverse sources, in mosaic-like settings, present complex views that, if decoded, relate to our scattered, shattered world.

Concepts such as originality, ethnicity and authenticity are explored, exposed, sometimes even exploded, through the works that are currently shown in the exhibition Apposite | Opposite: they rely upon the language of our times, existing like photographs of our imagination and videos of our dreams.

Chemould Prescott Road

April 9th – May 26th, 2012
Queens Mansion
Mumbai 400 001
India

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