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Ranjeet Singh
Ranjeet Singh is a multimedia artist interested in researching the nuances of human existence and the layered quality of socio-cultural interactions. He uses a distinctive visual language in which photography and photo-realistic painting both play a part in the documentation of the environments and people he comes in contact with. He employs these techniques as a means of articulating an understanding of complex hierarchies and political disparities that create segregations and conflict within social structures. In ‘The Black Truth’ series, Singh highlights the lives of workers at coal mines in his native region of Bihar. Earlier, he developed a body of paintings on child labour. His purposeful works reveal elements of truth about what is alive around him, amplifying the voices of communities who are often denied basic human rights. “I choose the representational-figurative tradition to unfurl myself to my viewers in a simply readable language superimposing identical objects, contexts and symbols, creating paradoxes to convey my idea vigorously”, says the artist.
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HARSHA DURUGADDA
Harsha Durugadda is a conceptual artist who works with multiple media, like sculptures, performance art and site-specific, large scale installations; at times employing the use of audio or light in his sculptural practices. He encourages the audience to touch, smell and hear his engaging works in which found objects such as metal, stone, juliflora wood and automobile tyres make an appearance.
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SARIKA BAJAJ
Bajaj’s work investigates and highlights the multidimensional aspects of people’s relationship with nature. Working in various mediums, she juxtaposes bodily forms with flowers, birds, roots, and branches of trees and other organic forms. The artist believes in an intangible and interdependent bond that humankind has with the ecosystems they are a part of.
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APRE Studio Visit : Ranjeet Singh
Ranjeet Singh is a Delhi based artist whose style involves realism/photo realism. His range of works explore topics such as child labour and coal miners. He is especially passionate about... -
YASIR WAQAS
Yasir Waqas' work deals with compromises and conflicts, between ideas innate and ideas implanted, and the damage to the personality and the idea itself. His work often comprises different layered parts, juxtaposed in a way that the abstract visuals speak metaphorically about the conflicts within a person's belief system and aim to address the contradictions within a system, which can lead to inner destruction on the whole and on a macro level, infect the entire race. He feels it is the duty and responsibility of the artist to address societal and political issues at hand.
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BIRENDER YADAV
Birender Yadav is a multi-disciplinary artist who experiments with various media including painting, sculptures, photography, installation, live document, etching, found objects and man-made objects. His works draw attention to the issues of class politics present in society and the plight of the working class. Using gunpowder extracted from matchsticks as his primary medium, Yadav explores class and identity while performing a social and political commentary on power structures at play in society at large.
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SUBODH KERKAR
Subodh Kerkar (b.1959) is a Goan painter, sculptor, and installation artist. He is also the founder of Museum of Goa. A qualified medical professional, he gave up medicine to pursue the arts. Experimenting and exploring the potential of different mediums, Kerkar has been practicing art since over three decades.
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Studio Visit: Rajesh Pullarwar
