Trace City (ongoing)
Landscape as Evidence: Artist as Witness (Collaboration work as detailed) 2017
Conceived by Khoj International Artists’ Association and Zuleikha Chaudhari in collaboration with Anand Grover. The first iteration of the project was staged at the Constitutional Club of India, New Delhi in 2017 and has been developed with Navjot Altaf, Ravi...
Na’dar/Prakriti : Dialogical Possibilities: Nature and Wildness in Scotland and India (2017-18)
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...
Else all will be still (2013-2015)
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.
Tar Machine Series (2011)
A Feast of Sorts
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,...
Ecology of Desire I,II,III,IV
Flyover series (2008)
This is a sample excerpt that summarizes the artwork and provides a brief description.
Scene of Crime
Capital in Transition 2009 ongoing
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...
Urbanscapes I-IV (2009)
Various Works
Bhatti Mines (2004)
A migrant community of traditional mud workers evacuated from the forest. A community without a home.
After the Flood (2011)
Extinct? 48 deg C, Public Eco Art Project, N Delhi 2008
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...
Mechanical Man + Metal Man (2008)
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...
Impossibility of being feminine II (2007)
Gendered Gaze
Impossibly of being feminine I
31 images – negotiating gender identities
Riverbank Installations I, II, III 2007
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...
Have you seen the flowers on the river? (2007 – 2010)
See diary – Have you seen the flowers on the river? (under catalogues/books)
Immersion.Emergence (series) 2007
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....
Alien Waters 2004-2006
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,...
Down and Out: Labouring under Global Capitalism 1997-2000
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...