India Art Fair 2023

Feb 9, 2023 - Feb 12, 2023

LATITUDE 28 brings together the works of South Asian Artists who rethink and rework the existing paradigms surrounding contemporary art. The booth will showcase works which are reflective of their distinct practices, and the political, social and metaphysical realities that preoccupy them. While some artists situate themselves and their identities within the global geo-politics, others dive deep into the terrains of human nature, while questioning the constructed nature of identities itself. This year’s booth will feature works with mediums ranging from PLA sculptures to woodcut prints to hanji paper figures and hand-painted photographs. Themes, styles and sources cross-cut the practices of these artists allowing a complex rendition of concerns regarding environment, climate change, migration, gender and socio-cultural identities.

The highlights of this year’s LATITUDE 28’s booth is Yogesh Ramkrishna, a young visual art practitioner from Pune, Maharashtra who works in multiple mediums and often includes different levels of interactivity within his work. Yogesh’s current practice revolves around the feeling that “we are no more the protagonists of our own stories”. It underlines the observations of post-truth behaviours of society, manipulated information and evolved meanings of the spaces and relations from our surrounding world. Some other artists include Ketaki Sarpotdar (with her recent stint with Kochi-Muziris Biennale), Chandan Bez Baruah, Manjot Kaur, Sudipta Das, Shalina Vichitra and Waswo X. Waswo.

On a much grander scale this time, Sudipta Das has once again come up with a spectacular hanji paper sculpture, inspired by the dakjee doll making technique learned while on residency in Korea in 2017. Done in paper, although they appear solid, the exiled body of Sudipta’s refugee is built on the vulnerability of a perishable medium.

Post her recent stint with the Kochi-Muziris Biennale, Ketaki Sarpotdar’s new works deviate from her characteristic anthropomorphic forms to depict how her psychological state changed over the course of the pandemic, and the thorough questioning of opinions , emotions, beliefs and ideologies that people had to navigate through the course of this confusion.