Enter, Wander and Discover

The T-shirts are free for those who visit the exhibition. “My work is a thought. I want art to be free. We often wear T-shirts with signs and images that we believe in. The statements are existential questions we deal with every day. People relate to it,” says 53-year-old Tiravanija, one of the most influential artists of his generation. He was awarded the Hugo Boss Prize 2004 by the Guggenheim Museum.

In a dark room is a work by Argentina-born Tomas Saracena, famous for installations that merge art, architecture and science. The spotlight is on two spiders, which are weaving their webs, within a steel frame. As he blows into the web, showing its delicate yet strong threads and knots moving in the air, Germany-based Saracena says, “I worked with scientists in India who helped me collect the spiders. These threads explain the structure and the origin of the universe according to cosmologists. We know only four percent of the universe and the rest is black that we do not know about. ” By the end of the month-long exhibition, the 40-year-old artist says that the shape of this structure will be completely different, almost filling the entire room, just like the universe keeps changing.

A video series titled Mir Ali and Miranshah by Forensic Architecture made with the help of the principal investigator and architect Eyal Weizman recreates the witness account of a German woman, whose house was destroyed in a drone strike in Mir Ali, North Waziristan in 2010. She collaborated with Forensic Architecture, a forensic agency comprising artists, architecture, filmmakers and theorists, who pursue and protest the drone strikes. The size of each room, furniture,and even the utensils were digitally reconstructed. “Based on her instructions, we constructed a computer model of her house. This way, the witness could return to the space and time of the attack and recollect incidences,” says Weizman. Curated by Raqs Media Collective, it’s evident that every work here stays true to its theme of time and space.

The exhibition is on display at Mati Ghar, IGNCA till February 28. Contact: 23388155 

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