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拍品专文
Monica Narula, Shuddhabrata Sengupta and Jeebesh Bagchi formed Raqs Media Collective in 1992, after graduating from AJK Mass Communication and Research Center, Jamia Milia University, in Delhi. Raqs Media Collective follows its self-declared imperative of ‘kinetic contemplation’ to produce a trajectory that is restless in its forms and exacting in its procedures. Raqs articulates an intimately lived relationship with time in all its tenses through anticipation, conjecture, entanglement and excavation.
Conjuring figures of cognitive and sensory acuteness, the Collective’s work reconfigures perceptional fields and demands that everyone looks at what they take for granted, anew. In the present lot, a lenticular print, sleep and waking, life and death - the most intimate, singular as well as universal of experiences - are rendered through a pair of clock-faces that mark the rhythm of every working day, and every life. The alteration between waking, working, sleeping on the one hand, and the beginning and end of life on the other hand, are the two sets of movements that stand behind the conception of this piece.
Conjuring figures of cognitive and sensory acuteness, the Collective’s work reconfigures perceptional fields and demands that everyone looks at what they take for granted, anew. In the present lot, a lenticular print, sleep and waking, life and death - the most intimate, singular as well as universal of experiences - are rendered through a pair of clock-faces that mark the rhythm of every working day, and every life. The alteration between waking, working, sleeping on the one hand, and the beginning and end of life on the other hand, are the two sets of movements that stand behind the conception of this piece.