Vikram Divecha: Short Circuits

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Vikram Divecha: Short Circuits

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‘Short Circuits’ is Vikram Divecha’s first survey exhibition, retracing the Dubai-based artist’s practice since 2013.

Developing long-term collaborations with workers, contractors and decision-makers, Vikram Divecha takes an interest in the otherwise invisible structures of planning, construction, demolition and maintenance that shape the cities of the United Arab Emirates and beyond.

His works, playful and poetic, rely on what he calls “found processes” in which the artist inserts himself, observing how individuals navigate, experiment with and bypass these systems.

Working with the materials, space and labour available to him, Divecha’s projects manifest as site-specific works, public art, installations, videos, photography and drawings.

Curated by Art Jameel’s Dawn Ross, Head of Collections, and Lucas Morin, Curator, the exhibition gathers works from the Art Jameel Collection, local and international loans, and new commissions.

Softcover

Dimensions: 21 x 14 x 0.5 cm

ISBN: 9788197050619

160 pages

Publisher: Art Jameel & Press Works

Published in 2024

Country of publication: Dubai, United Arab Emirates and Bangalore, India

Designed by Press Works

Weight: 0.5 kg

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Robert T. Kilroy is an art historian and lecturer specializing in the intersection of art, psychoanalysis, and contemporary subjectivity. He has taught at Sorbonne University Abu Dhabi and currently lectures at Limerick School of Art and Design in Ireland. A former Curator for Modern & Contemporary Art at the Louvre Abu Dhabi, Kilroy holds a PhD from Trinity College Dublin and is the author of Marcel Duchamp’s Fountain: One Hundred Years Later. His research and writings explore themes such as technology’s impact on art, globalism, and the materiality of images, with contributions in multiple languages. In his contribution to Short-Circuits, Robert brings these ideas to bear on the work of Vikram Divecha.

Vikram Divecha is part of an emerging generation of artists from Dubai who are not necessarily citizens of the UAE, but who have lived in the country for some time and use it as a base for their developing practice. Divecha’s projects often bring invisible structures into plain view, to raise questions about agency, ethics and value and to challenge the nature and modes of artistic production. Working with available material, space and labour, Divecha attempts to realign the social and urban systems we inhabit by introducing alterations and interventions.

Divecha was among the 18 artists and collectives whose works were included in the 'Second Hand' exhibition at Jameel Arts Centre from July 3 to November 23, 2019.

Robert T. Kilroy is an art historian and lecturer specializing in the intersection of art, psychoanalysis, and contemporary subjectivity. He has taught at Sorbonne University Abu Dhabi and currently lectures at Limerick School of Art and Design in Ireland. A former Curator for Modern & Contemporary Art at the Louvre Abu Dhabi, Kilroy holds a PhD from Trinity College Dublin and is the author of Marcel Duchamp’s Fountain: One Hundred Years Later. His research and writings explore themes such as technology’s impact on art, globalism, and the materiality of images, with contributions in multiple languages. In his contribution to Short-Circuits, Robert brings these ideas to bear on the work of Vikram Divecha.

Vikram Divecha is part of an emerging generation of artists from Dubai who are not necessarily citizens of the UAE, but who have lived in the country for some time and use it as a base for their developing practice. Divecha’s projects often bring invisible structures into plain view, to raise questions about agency, ethics and value and to challenge the nature and modes of artistic production. Working with available material, space and labour, Divecha attempts to realign the social and urban systems we inhabit by introducing alterations and interventions.

Divecha was among the 18 artists and collectives whose works were included in the 'Second Hand' exhibition at Jameel Arts Centre from July 3 to November 23, 2019.

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