#raviagarwal

[louisaelderton]

Editor of the across, with, nearby Reader (Bergen Assembly, 2025)

I was the Editor of this Reader for the fifth edition of Bergen Assembly 2025, across, with, nearby. It brings together 3 convenor essays, an introductory text, artist biographies, and over 100 project and venue texts, alongside new and archival images. You can read more about the triennial here.

[myartville]

Artist of the Day   

Ravi Agarwal   

Fishing nets drying    2016    Archival photographic print    24 × 36 in    61 × 91.4 cm  

Artist, writer, curator, and environmental activist Ravi Agarwal produces photographs, videos, and installations, through which he exposes the destruction of the natural world and the communities who rely most heavily upon it. Through his work, he bears witness to a process of dominance and transformation, which he describes: “As distinct from nature in its ‘wild’ state, as part of the human domain, nature becomes culture.” As he attests in unflinching, documentary images of parched fields, the polluted Yamuna River, crumbling buildings, and people laboring at the edges of Indian society, nature and humanity are degraded alike in the name of progress. In his later, more lyrical work, Agarwal focuses on identity, presenting the body as machine and as landscape, a fragile ecological system that is subject (like nature) to decay, misuse, and death.

courtesy of artsy.net