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Artists interpret the city
Urban artists have always found inspiration in the cosmopolitanism and chaos of the cities they inhabit. In the last two decades, as Delhi's accelerated development has been mirrored by the emergence of the city as an important art hub, this relationship has only intensified. For our annual art special, Time Out Delhi asked 15 young and mid-career Delhi artists to share a new or recent work that engages with the capital. From architects' takes on urban planning, to video, performance and street art enjoy seeing your city through new perspectives. Compiled by Sonam Joshi.
Dis-equilibrium Martand Khosla, 2012 Wood, fibre board, automobile wipers, motors and paint
Khosla, an architect and artist from New Delhi, explores ques tions of migration, urbanisation and labour through the use of materials like brick dust, rubber stamp imprints and printed legal judgements. He sees his art as a political engagement with city planning and a way to make con nections with the people involved in building the expanding capital. This particular work, Khosla said "explores continuous dis placement" in which "the self determined uprooting of one's life
is replaced with a new uncertainty: the continuous, unpredictable local shifting by external forces". He came up with the idea forthis table-sized kinetic work during the 2010 Commonwealth Games. The motorised wipers constantly clear the red wooden balls to different corners of the board . It reflects, he said, "the desire to clear certain sight lines of the city of its poor, either by displacing them, or by hidingthem." Watch "Dis-equilibrium" in motion at www.timeoutdelhi.net.
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