Rohini Devasher: “An archaeologist of new fictions and futures”
by Critical Collective Critical Collective: Your practice seems to engage with a dynamic abstraction, working between the coordinates of matter, light and space. Is there an overriding principle in these aesthetic positions? Related to this, what determines the choice of scale in your work?
Rohini Devasher:
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by Deepika Sorabjee Dr. Siddhartha Mukherjee, a practicing oncologist and author of The Emperor of Maladies and The Gene, expounds in an interview in Nautilus (December 2016), “… one of the things that we’re realizing more and more in medicine is that medicine exists at an interface between your particular
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by Shaleen Wadhwana
There have been many lives of the Bhau Daji Lad Museum. From being the Central Government Museum of Natural History, Economy, Geology, Industry and Arts in 1855, it was made into the Victoria and Albert Museum in 1872, and finally the Dr Bhau Daji Lad (BDL) Museum in 1975. Paying homage
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by Deepika Sorabjee Tucked away in a small room, off the warehouse spaces in Aspinwall House, the main venue of the Kochi-Muziris Biennale earlier this year, was Rohini Devasher’s seven- channel video work, Parts Unknown. In a crowd of big installations that populated the various cavernous spaces, Devasher’s quiet,
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by Jyoti Dhar Fossus (2011), the opening installation in Rohini Devasher's debut solo exhibition in New Delhi, appears at first glance to resemble the film of a cerebral CT scan, albeit grossly hypertrophied. The dramatic tableau consists of a large, brain-shaped, sandstone cut-out against a black background,
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