Sustaining Collapse | 2018
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Chinese ink and watercolor on wasli paper and repurposed wood
198 x 23 x 14 in | 503 x 59 x 36 cm
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The work points
towards the deep black smog that
dominates
Northern India
due
to stubble burning of farmlands caused by intensive agriculture practices
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the drawbacks
of the policies adopted while implementing green revolution in the 1960s and 70s in India.
The work uses a graphic style of a book takes the reference from Pahari miniature paintings. The drawing is an imaginative landscape with distorted perspective narrating the tail of the delicate environmental system threatened by uncontrolled exploitation.
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The display lives on a double track between Italy and India, although its vision intends to embrace a wider understanding of the current environmental situation linked to climate change, capitalistic system, and globalization.
The pedestal of the work takes the form of a shelf found inside the homes to display artifacts.
The pedestal is tinted black.
Pedastal as an emergency walkway.
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Exhibited in the exhibition "Garden State" in Garage Rotterdam, Rotterdam, Netherlands
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Press: kunstblijfteenraadsel.nl
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