The exhibition ‘In Transition:New Art from India’ at Richmond Art Gallery features installation-based work by R namely Shilpa Gupta, Reena Kallat, TV Santhosh, SudarshanShetty, artist collective Thukral & Tagra, and Hema Upadhyay. Following are the related events as part of the India show, among India’s most recognized contemporary artists. Her work often explores the places where the public and the private intersect.
Jiten Thukral was born in Jalandhar, Punjab and received his Bachelor of Arts from Chandigrah Art College and his Master of Fine Arts from New Delhi College of Art. Sumir Tagra was born in New Delhi and received his Bachelor of Fine Arts from the New Delhi College of Art, New Delhi and his Post Graduate Diploma from the National Institute of Desgn, Ahmedabad Shankar of Arts ,New Delhi. Thukral and Tagra currently work as a collective based in New Delhi.
The artist collective Thukral & Tagra present their work under the trade name of Bosedk Design. The Anglicization of an abusive term in Punjabi, Bosedk can be read as an adolescent stance taken in defiance of all that is serious and adult, ensuring that the artists never take themselves too seriously.
Working under Bosedk Design permits Thukral & Tagra to delve unrestrictedly into all media and forms, including corporate commissions, since the notion of “selling-out” is part of their artistic enquiry. The creation of a faux-industrial line of products, branded as “Everyday Bosedk”, allows the artists to challenge the values of fine art fabrication and the art market by using industrial processes to create everyday, disposable objects within the context of “high art”.
'Keep Out of Reach of Children' plays into this strategy, presenting ordinary plastic bottles on commercially produced shelving units. Through the use of commissioned labels and their strategic placement on the shelving unit however, the artists reveal the social critique underlying their work. In the current exhibition, standing at a distance from the work allows the viewer to note the deliberate arrangement of objects that create the form of an armored tank.
The title repeats a common warning found on everyday household products, exhorting care, responsibility and proper supervision of those in power to safeguard those who must be protected.
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