Raqs Media Collective : When the Scales Move From Your Eyes :: Ikon Gallery – The next exhibition at Ikon Eastside is from Raqs Media Collective from New Delhi – artists Jeebesh Bagchi, Monica Narula and Shuddhabrata Sengupta. They make work that ‘locates them at the intersections of contemporary art, historical enquiry, philosophical speculation, research and theory’.
For Ikon’s Eastside programme, Raqs has created an installation piece When the Scales Fall From Your Eyes.
The installation features an array of glass cast busts, mounted with heads made of weighing scales. The items and assemblages placed on the scales comprise a beachcomber’s treasure trove, ranging from the useless and the absurd, with detours into violence, fetishism, preciousness and straightforward banality. The assemblages are read as the ‘contents’ of the characters’ heads, providing an estimate of their weightiness.
There is an Artists’ Talk on Friday 24 July, 6–7pm. Jeebesh Bagchi, Monica Narula and Shuddhabrata Sengupta from Raqs Media Collective talk about their work.
