"Bawwaba Section, Booth G8 "
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Multi-media artist Ranbir Kaleka navigates psychosocial thresholds as non-binary possibilities, meaning he acknowledges, even inserts liminal experiences by way of movement across time and communities, histories and identities into his complexly layered compositions. He narrates the reactionary underbelly of choices and impact, both individual and collective, as seen through well-developed, representational characters investigating macro-factors like political unrest, climate change, economic inequality and other social realities. Bringing to bear his proto-cinematic practice, Kaleka often reflects on present times haunted by the stubborn after-images thrown up by fear and violence, blurring the borders between the conscious and the subconscious, and the self and the Other — the one that is excluded, jettisoned — which returns, in an act of resistance, to confront what it was othered from.
Fear of a New Dawn is a sombre body of work that recalibrates narratives of intersectionality, reframing globalized pictures in the context of the average Asian Joe. Since Kaleka's symbolic arrangements create an atmospheric, sensory overload catering to an overlap of all our disparate but inter-connected experiences, his politics infuses with the psychology of his abject but resolutely present, often solitary, figures, who strive to fully occupy their frames. Despite the fears and uncertainties concerning the future, Kaleka reveals hope as a mode of survival even in pockets of intense disharmony.
Bawwaba returns for its second edition in 2022, curated by Bombay-based cultural theorist and curator Nancy Adajania. Bawwaba highlights Art Dubai's commitment to a plurality of narratives concerning the global art scene. Adajania interprets the section descriptor 'Bawwaba'– meaning gateway in Arabic – as an invitation to annotate the 'offsites' of global contemporary art, without creating a binary between art from the west and the so-called non-west. The section will feature solo presentations, including artists from Angola, India, Mexico, Nigeria, Pakistan, Peru and elsewhere, to demonstrate the productive entanglements as well as the distinctive, location-specific explorations from which contemporary art draws its plural energies.
Ranbir Kaleka
VADEHRA ART GALLERY
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Multiple location : New Delhi(2) London
Art Dubai
Madinat Jumeirah Conference & Events Centre King Salman Bin Abdulaziz Al Saud St Al Sufouh 1 Dubai United Arab EmiratesT +971 4 563 1400 e-mail:
March 11 > 13, 2022
Bawwaba Section, Booth G8
FEAR OF A NEW DAWN
Vadehra Art Gallery is pleased to announce its participation in the upcoming edition of Art Dubai 2022, with a presentation titled Fear of a New Dawn by artist Ranbir Kaleka in the Bawwaba section curated by Bombay-based cultural theorist and curator Nancy Adajania. The exhibition features a seminal video installation as well as canvases created by a combination of staged and accessed photographs, with passages painted in oil.FEAR OF A NEW DAWN
Multi-media artist Ranbir Kaleka navigates psychosocial thresholds as non-binary possibilities, meaning he acknowledges, even inserts liminal experiences by way of movement across time and communities, histories and identities into his complexly layered compositions. He narrates the reactionary underbelly of choices and impact, both individual and collective, as seen through well-developed, representational characters investigating macro-factors like political unrest, climate change, economic inequality and other social realities. Bringing to bear his proto-cinematic practice, Kaleka often reflects on present times haunted by the stubborn after-images thrown up by fear and violence, blurring the borders between the conscious and the subconscious, and the self and the Other — the one that is excluded, jettisoned — which returns, in an act of resistance, to confront what it was othered from.
Fear of a New Dawn is a sombre body of work that recalibrates narratives of intersectionality, reframing globalized pictures in the context of the average Asian Joe. Since Kaleka's symbolic arrangements create an atmospheric, sensory overload catering to an overlap of all our disparate but inter-connected experiences, his politics infuses with the psychology of his abject but resolutely present, often solitary, figures, who strive to fully occupy their frames. Despite the fears and uncertainties concerning the future, Kaleka reveals hope as a mode of survival even in pockets of intense disharmony.
Bawwaba returns for its second edition in 2022, curated by Bombay-based cultural theorist and curator Nancy Adajania. Bawwaba highlights Art Dubai's commitment to a plurality of narratives concerning the global art scene. Adajania interprets the section descriptor 'Bawwaba'– meaning gateway in Arabic – as an invitation to annotate the 'offsites' of global contemporary art, without creating a binary between art from the west and the so-called non-west. The section will feature solo presentations, including artists from Angola, India, Mexico, Nigeria, Pakistan, Peru and elsewhere, to demonstrate the productive entanglements as well as the distinctive, location-specific explorations from which contemporary art draws its plural energies.
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