Of Value and Labour - The first solo exhibition of Ravi Agarwal at The Guild art Gallery

What is the event?

The first solo exhibition of Ravi Agarwal

Of Value and Labour

 

Some of the works being presented in the exhibition were documented in a monograph titled ‘Down and Out :Labouring under Global Capitalism,’ Jan Breman, Arvind Das and Ravi Agarwal, OUP, 2000, New Delhi.

The body of the work was produced between 1996 and 2000 and was sited in South Gujarat, in and around the city of Surat, as a collaborative project with Jan Breman, the well known Dutch labour anthropologist who has been researching in India for over 45 years

 Who is the Artist?

Ravi Agarwal

Ravi Agarwal is a photographer artist, writer, curator and environmental activist. He explores issues of urban space, ecology, capital in an interrelated ways working with photographs, video, performance, on-site installations and public art. 

Agarwal has participated in several international shows including Documenta XI (Kassel 2002), ‘Horn Please,’ Kunstmuseum, Bern, 2007; ‘Indian Highway’ (2009 ongoing); ‘Generation in Transition,’ National Gallery of Art, Warsaw; ‘The Eye is a Lonely Hunter, Images of Humankind,’ at Fotofestival Mannheim_ludwigshafen_Heidelberg; ‘After the Crash’ at Museo Orto Botanico, Rome; his recent solo show being ‘Flux: dystopia, utopia, heterotopia,’ Gallery Espace, New Delhi.

Agarwal recently co-curated a twin city public art project, Yamuna-Elbe.Public.Art.Outreach. He writes extensively on ecological issues, and is also founder of the leading Indianenvironmental NGO, Toxics Link. He is an engineer by training.

Where?

The Guild 

02/32, Kamal Mansion, 2nd floor
Arthur Bunder Road, Colaba Mumbai 400005
+91 22 2288 0116 / 0195
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+9122 2287 5839 /6211 fax + 91 22 2287 6210 
www.guildindia.com 

 

When?

16th December, 2011 – 2nd January, 2012

Preview: Thursday, December 15, 6.30 – 8.30 pm

Entry Free