BUILDING RUINS
RISD India Alumni Exhibition 2020
RISD India Alumni Exhibition 2020
The RISD India Alumni Club was founded in 2012, with a growing network of 70+ practising artists and designers across India.
Building on the legacy of the Rhode Island School of Design, which has produced some of the most notable names in contemporary art, film, architecture and design, the club’s mission is to support its Indian alumni and through its events and programming, enriching the landscape of art and design in India. Through a variety of programming that includes talks, exhibitions and mentorship sessions the alumni hope to build a strong creative community, facilitate collaborations and enable social impact.
In February 2017 the club organised the inaugural ‘RISD India Alumni Show’ in Mumbai to much critical acclaim. The opening night was inaugurated by Rosanne Somerson - President of RISD. The show featured art and design works of Indian alumni, including Durga Gawde, Anjali Modi, Ishrat Sahgal, Malvika Vaswani and Dhvani Behl amongst others.
Building Ruins marks the second edition of the RISD India Alumni Show. It puts together a curated display of contemporary art and design by India alumni of the Rhode Island School of Design. The show serves as a platform for Indian alumni to share the richness and diversity of their practices with the larger art and design communities and the general public. It highlights the relationship between art and design and the common foundations of both disciplines. The show is organised by volunteers from the RISD India Alumni Club in collaboration with curator, Anuj Daga.
19 artists participated in the exhibition, showcasing 18 works from about 10 different design disciplines. India-RISD ties run back to more than five decades. Over these decades, close to a hundred graduates have returned back from RISD to India and continued their practices in various forms. The curatorial ambition of the show has thus been to represent RISD alumni in India from across space, time and disciplines. At the same time, it was important to dissolve the illusory boundaries between art and design, and pose their dialogue with each other. While there is a concentration of the alumni in the cities of Mumbai and Delhi, the exhibition brings experiments from RISD practitioners in Kolkata, Pune and Indore too. Practitioners with different spans of experience share a common roof in this curation. In the pursuit of showcasing disciplinary diversity within the spatial constraints, the present selection comprises of creative practitioners, from painting, sculpture, illustration, industrial design, architecture, interior architecture, graphic design, photography, sculpture and lighting, who productively feed off each other’s processes. Several conversations with the artists and designers helped expand upon their original note and fine tune them towards creating fresh works. Each of the final 19 participants interpreted the curatorial provocation through their own practice which lends the overall show a unified, yet diverse character – one that must truly represent RISD.
Participants
Aahana Miller, Aditya Dutta, Akshat Raghava, Ananya Tantia, Aparajita Jain Mahajan, Ayushi Gupta, Cynthia Director, Dhvani Behl, Ishrat Sahgal, Malvika Vaswani, Mehr Chatterjee, Mekhala Bahl, Nishita Mehta, Raghvi Bhatia, Rahoul B Singh, Shonan Trehan, Srishti Srivastava, Tanvi Maloo Mehta, Vikramaditya Sharma
Building on the legacy of the Rhode Island School of Design, which has produced some of the most notable names in contemporary art, film, architecture and design, the club’s mission is to support its Indian alumni and through its events and programming, enriching the landscape of art and design in India. Through a variety of programming that includes talks, exhibitions and mentorship sessions the alumni hope to build a strong creative community, facilitate collaborations and enable social impact.
In February 2017 the club organised the inaugural ‘RISD India Alumni Show’ in Mumbai to much critical acclaim. The opening night was inaugurated by Rosanne Somerson - President of RISD. The show featured art and design works of Indian alumni, including Durga Gawde, Anjali Modi, Ishrat Sahgal, Malvika Vaswani and Dhvani Behl amongst others.
Building Ruins marks the second edition of the RISD India Alumni Show. It puts together a curated display of contemporary art and design by India alumni of the Rhode Island School of Design. The show serves as a platform for Indian alumni to share the richness and diversity of their practices with the larger art and design communities and the general public. It highlights the relationship between art and design and the common foundations of both disciplines. The show is organised by volunteers from the RISD India Alumni Club in collaboration with curator, Anuj Daga.
19 artists participated in the exhibition, showcasing 18 works from about 10 different design disciplines. India-RISD ties run back to more than five decades. Over these decades, close to a hundred graduates have returned back from RISD to India and continued their practices in various forms. The curatorial ambition of the show has thus been to represent RISD alumni in India from across space, time and disciplines. At the same time, it was important to dissolve the illusory boundaries between art and design, and pose their dialogue with each other. While there is a concentration of the alumni in the cities of Mumbai and Delhi, the exhibition brings experiments from RISD practitioners in Kolkata, Pune and Indore too. Practitioners with different spans of experience share a common roof in this curation. In the pursuit of showcasing disciplinary diversity within the spatial constraints, the present selection comprises of creative practitioners, from painting, sculpture, illustration, industrial design, architecture, interior architecture, graphic design, photography, sculpture and lighting, who productively feed off each other’s processes. Several conversations with the artists and designers helped expand upon their original note and fine tune them towards creating fresh works. Each of the final 19 participants interpreted the curatorial provocation through their own practice which lends the overall show a unified, yet diverse character – one that must truly represent RISD.
Participants
Aahana Miller, Aditya Dutta, Akshat Raghava, Ananya Tantia, Aparajita Jain Mahajan, Ayushi Gupta, Cynthia Director, Dhvani Behl, Ishrat Sahgal, Malvika Vaswani, Mehr Chatterjee, Mekhala Bahl, Nishita Mehta, Raghvi Bhatia, Rahoul B Singh, Shonan Trehan, Srishti Srivastava, Tanvi Maloo Mehta, Vikramaditya Sharma
Read full Catalogue here
Link
https://issuu.com/risdindia/docs/building_ruins_catalogue_final_a5_web
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Link
https://issuu.com/risdindia/docs/building_ruins_catalogue_final_a5_web
Process:
Images of the final installation
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