“Over the last twenty years, Raqs Media Collective have shifted their audiences perceptions on what contemporary art practice can be defined as, participating in projects with artistic, curatorial and philosophical materialisations. Working across a variety of discursive roles and artistic materialities, they circumnavigate individual artistic autonomy in the wake of collective solidarity. The Untimely Calendar is a retrospective, spanning twenty years of work by the collective, held at the National Gallery of Modern Art in New Delhi. Raqs consider this exhibition a prospective, rather than a typically framed retrospective. This is a strategy, employed by the collective to subvert the spectacle commonly found within the curation of major retrospectives…”
