WORK MARGINS
2016
 
A temporary, site-specific installation in an abandoned elevator shaft. 
Yelahanka, Bangalore. June 2016. 

This is a documentation of a site specific, temporary sculptural installation, structured in and around an incomplete, elevator shaft. The building housed design students and a student led  art initiative ‘G-159’. They invited me to present a work, as part of their exhibition- ‘Final Review’

The building is a part of an old, residential, quiet neighborhood, holding living facilities for young students of a design institute, Srishti Institute of Art, Design and Technology, Yelahanka, Bengaluru. 
 
The work frames (and is framed) around an incomplete elevator shaft, its dynamics in an upscale neighborhood. The leftover aesthetics is used to quietly remind the students about working class lives; overshadowed by other parts of completed building. The idea of work and labor is rebuilt as a temporary site, with meagre means of a mattress, steel tiffin box, few tools, a light bulb, and suspended ropes, rocks, a dilapidated jute curtain etc.
In a busy exhibition of young artists, with new media and avant-garde aesthetics, the work desolately strayed towards marginalized, working class lives that hold and make the urban environments possible in Indian cities.