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‘The Game,’ by Ravikumar Kashi at Sumukha

The Bangalore-based artist Ravikumar Kashi’s latest show, titled ‘The Game,’ opened at Gallery Sumukha, Bangalore recently. The show includes a set of 25 photographs printed on archival paper and a video.

‘The Game,’ is the result of a photographic project that he had embarked upon four years ago, juxtaposing various objects in his studio and photographing them so as to evoke multiple meanings, far beyond the sum total of their individual connotations. The body of works thus created were edited by the noted art writer, poet and curator Ranjit Hoskote for this show.

“This entire process can also probably be called ‘Photo-performance’ in the sense that it is a photo documentation of continuously changing installations happening in the studio space,” says the artist.

Referring to the beginning of his process, he says that, for years, he had been collecting objects that seemed interesting, but without any design. “However, one day when I started placing them one next to the other, magic happened. Unexpected meanings started emerging from the juxtaposition. This naturally led to a process of exploration and expansion of the association of meanings. I began photographing the various arrangements. Eventually, what started as a playful experiment became a serious project and its scope got expanded and gained immense depth.”

Ravikumar Kashi, hailing from Bangalore, had his initial education in art at Ken School of Art, Bangalore and Chitrakala Parishath, Bangalore, before pursuing MFA from M.S.University, Baroda. 

After the show at Bangalore, ‘The Game,’ will travel to Gallery Sumukha, Chennai in March and later in the year to Pundole Art Gallery, Mumbai and also to Delhi.

- From A Correspondent