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Amitesh Shrivastava’s art captures life between liminal spaces

Posted On: Thursday, October 12th, 2017 | by project88pressadmin

“Trespassers and Translators” is the Chhattisgarh-born, Mumbai-based artist’s first solo at Mumbai’s Project 88 gallery.

Amitesh Shrivastava, Tresspassers II, Project 88.

Amitesh Shrivastava, Tresspassers II, Project 88.

Having maintained close ties with his hometown in Chhattisgarh–the so-called ‘pre-modern’ with its tribes, animals, trees, ‘crafts,’ urgencies, and deprivations, forms as much a part of artist Amitesh Shrivastava’s reality as the world of digital technology, virtual reality, and urban life.

The life he soaks up from his current residence in Mumbai–with all its mediatization, clamour, categories, and migrants- swirls in his subconscious with his parallel life at his childhood home in Khairagarh, Chhattisgarh–with its animals, insects, stagnation and small miracles.

Amitesh Shrivastava, Assignation, Project 88

Amitesh Shrivastava, Assignation, Project 88

Trespassers and Translators is on at Project 88 until October 14, Tuesday-Saturday, 11 am – 7 pm.

Address: Ground Floor, B.M.P. Building, Narayan A Sawant Rd, Azad Nagar, Colaba, Mumbai.

Read more: https://www.architecturaldigest.in/content/amitesh-shrivastava-tresspassers-project88/