Project 88 at Frieze Art Fair

India’s representation at the prestigious Frieze Art Fair is in the form of a group show of works presented by Mumbai based Project 88. The gallery features works by artists Rohini Devasher, Sandeep Mukherjee, Tejal Shah and Raqs Media Collective.

The works on view comprise of sculpture and photographs by Raqs Media Collective, new media works by Rohini Devasher, Tejal Shah’s performance based photography and paintings by Sandeep Mukherjee. It will also be part of the Sculpture Park with Neha Choksi’s large scale cement sculpture.

Among the participating artists, Sandeep Mukherjee did his B.F.A. from Otis College of Art & Design (Los Angeles) and later an M.F.A. from UCLA. His select solos have been held at venues including Sister & Cottage Home, Los Angeles; the Margo Leavin Gallery, L A; Brennan and Griffin, New York; Nature Morte Gallery, Delhi; and the Pomona College Museum of Art in Claremont, CA. His noteworthy group shows include those at the UCLA Hammer Museum, Los Angeles; the Wattis Institute for Contemporary Arts, San Francisco; and the Museum of Contemporary, L A.

Key areas of artistic contemplation and subsequent discovery to Rohini Devasher are pattern recognition as well as pattern formation within organic form apart from an astute understanding of the universal underlying structure within surrounding nature’s complexity.

Raqs Media Collective group ((Monica Narula, Jeebesh Bagchi, Shuddhabrata Sengupta) has been variously termed as artists, curators, media practitioners, editors and researchers. Serving as proactive catalyst of cultural processes, their body of work traces the contemporary realities in a quirky manner. It has been showed widely at major international galleries and in events.

Tejal Shah is a visual artist based in Mumbai. Her work like herself is feminist, political and queer. She works with a variety of media such as video, photography and installation. Just like herself, her work is starkly feminist, queer and sharply political in approach. It has been exhibited prestigious galleries, museums and international film festivals.