YECH’N TIME Ravi Agarwal & Paulina Lopez Paulina Lopez is a scientist in the field of water, glaciers and climate change and lives in Chile MEDIUM: Video (4), Installation, Fotografie, Zeichnung, ForschungsmaterialCOLLABORATION: José Tonko (University of...

“I am going to the sea, clear the path” Digitally Printed Canvas Banners*1 nos. 151cm x 215 cm: 2 nos. 70cm x 215 cm Surround sound** Sound design by Padmanabhan J. (Beatnyk : https://bento.me/beatnyk) Verse from Jalāl al-Dīn Muḥammad Rūmī, # 1823  درشکنید کوزه را...

I am leather- I am cotton 3 Archival Inkjet Prints30” x 20” (2) and 20”x20”Edition 1 of 5 plus 2 AP (2024) (Text from - Joothan- A Dalit’s Life, Om Prakash Valmiki and Reapers by Jean Toomers 1923) “The colonized, underdeveloped man is a political creature in the most...

Redemption/ Homage (2023) Series of 6 digital prints, each 61 cm width ; video performance; 1 gum oil print stained with cocoa powder (57cm x 45cm). Fieldwork documentation (photographs and video interview) Ravi Agarwal explored cacao growing stated in South India,...

The print series in the exhibition is an outcome of my research and print residency with Edinburgh Printmakers that took place in July and August of 2017. During this project, I had the opportunity to explore a variety of Scottish landscapes and have many...

31 images – negotiating gender identities

A Feast of Sorts (3 works), 2014 A Feast of Sorts Ravi Agarwal, 2014 Levi Strauss’s Culinary Triangle draws a connection between “nature” and “culture.” It points towards the idea of food as a need which goes beyond mere survival, but which generates traditions,...

138 x 92 cm: Archival digital prints The Birla Textile mill in Delhi was set up in 1920. Here G.D.Birla, one of the doyens of Indian industry, and a lifelong supporter of Gandhi, had a base. In 1996, the mill was ordered shut, along with other such mills, by the...

In the Shadow of the VultureThe South Asian Vulture has undergone a 99% decline in its population of approx. 10 million, owing a a painkiller contamination of carcasses. A page from a birdwatcher's diary.  Photographs and Projections in the Public Space at the...

The body of work was produced working with a Tamil fisherman off the Southern Coast of India, along the Bay of Bengal, as an exploration of the multiple inhabitations of a local ecology.

See diary – Have you seen the flowers on the river? (under catalogues/books)

An Other Place "The city I grew up in is transforming itself. Over two hundred thousand trees will be cut by 2010 for the metro, new roads, new malls and the commonwealth games. The ancient Ridge forest has now a fast train running through it. Buildings are brought...

Gendered Gaze

The fertility of capital subsumes the fertility of land 10,000 floating, shifting hectares of 'priceless' water-defined riverbank, as new urban imaginations are forced upon the land. Sugarcane, vegetable and flower harvests surrender to famished grids of brick, mortar...

Set of 24 images, approx. 8" x 11" each. Public Art: Activating the Agoratic Condition: Cultural theorist, art critic and independent curator, Nancy Adajania 's paper presented at the symposium linked to 48 C the Public Art Ecology Festival, New Delhi, December 2008....

The river. The city bears witness to itself. The river is in the margins. It is very dirty, filthy. The city does not need it any more. Its future is pre-configured, the river is dead. It will now be cleaned. Not like a life giving artery, but a sparkling necklace,...

A migrant community of traditional mud workers evacuated from the forest. A community without a home.

My engagements as a photographer and social activist have been an important part of my life. However this particular intense journey with people who eke a living as migrant laborers, was initiated through a collaboration with Jan Breman (co-author of the book) in...