Layered laser cut giclee prints on Hahnemuhle rice paper
138.4 x 104.3 (cm)
54.5 x 41.1 (inch)
Avinash Veeraraghavan’s practice articulates the heterogeneous nature of subjectivity. Tracing and building on formal and autobiographical developments in the artist’s life, Veeraraghavan’s complex visual collages use hybrid references, layering, and repetition to evoke multiple patterns of perception. Referring to an intellectual collapse of past structures, ideas and self-image, a boat at the end of its lifecycle alludes to redundancy of past function, to entropy and an abandonment of grand narratives, to make way for a positive embrace of hybridity.
Avinash Veeraraghavan’s recent solo presentations include We do not see things the way they are, we see things the way we are at GALLERYSKE, New Delhi (2014), an exhibition at the Tilton Gallery, New York (2013), Crazy Jane and Jack the journey man at Galerie Krinzinger, Vienna (2011) and Toy Story, GALLERYSKE, Bangalore (2009). His work has featured in traveling exhibition Indian Highway which was presented at the Ullens Center for Contemporary Art, Beijing (2012), Herning Museum of Contemporary Art, Denmark (2010) and Astrup Fearnley Museum of Modern Art, Oslo (2009). His group exhibitions include the Prague Biennale (2011), Urban Manners 2, curated by Adelina Von Furstenberg, Art for The World at SESC Pompeia, Sao Paulo (2010) and Still Moving Image, curated by Deeksha Nath at Devi Art Foundation, New Delhi (2008). In 2009, Veeraraghavan was the recipient of the Illy Sustain Art Prize awarded in Madrid. Veeraraghavan lives and works in Bangalore.
