Indian artists’ group at an international show, ‘The Matter Within’

In a significant mix of offbeat and new media works, San Francisco’s YBCA presents a host of known and upcoming artists and artists’ group from India. ‘The Matter Within: New Contemporary Art of India’ includes the following groups:

CAMP was founded in November 2007 by Shaina Anand and Ashok Sukumaran, along with Sanjay Bhangar, as a collaborative project linking and discussing independent artistic and media projects across the city of Mumbai. Shaina Anand is a filmmaker and media artist who has been working independently in film/video since 1997.

Founded in 2002 by Anjalika Sagar and Kodwo Eshun, The Otolith Group is an award-winning London-based artist-led collective and organization that integrates film- and video-making, artists writing, workshops, exhibition curation, publication and developing public platforms for the close readings of the image in contemporary society.

New Delhi-based artists Jiten Thukral and Sumir Tagra work collaboratively in a wide variety of media including painting, sculpture, installation, video, graphic and product design, websites, music and fashion. Thukral & Tagra’s solo exhibitions have included Thukral & Tagra: Match Fixed, Ullens Center for Contemporary Art, Beijing, 2011-2010; Middle Class Dreams, Arario Gallery, Seoul, 2010; Low-Tech Family Vacations, Singapore Tyler Print Institute, Singapore, 2010; Nouveau Riche, Nature Morte, Berlin, 2009; and Thukral & Tagra, Gallery Barry Keldoulis, Sydney, 2009.

Raqs Media Collective (Monica Narula, Jeebesh Bagchi, and Shuddhabrata Sengupta), founded in 1992 and based in New Delhi, have been variously described as artists, media practitioners, curators, researchers, editors and catalysts of cultural processes. Their recent solos are ‘Surjection’, AGYU, Toronto, 2011; ‘Reading Light’, Festival d'Automne, Paris, 2011; and ‘The Capital of Accumulation’, Project 88, Mumbai, 2010. Their work essentially locates them at the intersections of contemporary art, historical enquiry, philosophical speculation, research and theory, often taking the form of installations, online and offline media objects, performances and encounters.