By Rahul Juneja
Part of the exhibition
Critical Zones. In Search of a Common Ground.
The work takes off from the question, “What might be the wishes of a wish-granting
Kalpavriksha in the contemporary, and what sites of future might this techno-ecological intersection envision?”
Building on the mythical forest of
Khandava burnt during
Mahabharata, it posits the tree as a subject of the complex technological, sociological, and ecological intersections that terraform our world; encoding and decoding signals from the physical and the meta through large fungal networks and evaporating liquid realities. The work through this speculative landscape ruminates on nature and human agency, empathetic symbiosis, informatic voids, alternate temporal realms, and liquid cracklings.
© Rahul Juneja
Rahul Juneja is a multimedia artist based in New Delhi, India who works with analog and digital photography, videography, drawings, mixed-media installations, and hybrid object-making practices. He is interested in loosening the hard, evidential idea of the image and speculate on its constructed myths and realities. Rahul likes to prompt gatherings, thinking of shared originals and creating discursive settings with lecture performances. Rahul was a part of Peers Share at Khoj (Part of Triangle Network) in 2023, and his work has been shown in ‘TEXTXET’, at Foundation of Indian Contemporary Art -FICA in Delhi (2023), “States of Disarray: Practice as Restitution”, Kochi Muziris Biennale (2021), Group display at India Art Fair (2023), “All That Is Solid Melts into Air” at Anant Art Gallery (2023), “The Bulandshehar Project” at Kala Chaupal (2022), National Academy of Fine Arts (2019) and various other site specific projects.
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