India Art Fair’s Young Collectors’ Programme, with Embassy of Sweden in India and Galerie Geek Art (Tokyo/Delhi), presents (Mal)functions of Light curated by Wribhu Borphukon.
Light arrives through fractured presences—reflected, refracted, interrupted. It is often a residue of systems at work: optical, corporeal, personal or political. The artworks in the exhibition considers light and its instruments as sites of continual (re)production, where mechanics moves through sensations through belief, memory and power.
Light in this exhibition is not seen as a singularity, rather dismantled into operative components. It moves through its architectures and bodies, ricocheting off surfaces and skin, and reorganizing how space is apprehended and inhabited. The works operate within the dictates of rigorous engineering, as deeply affective, while at the same time produce moments of leaks and slippages, hallucinating and speculating. Within these calibrated systems also appear deliberately exposed infrastructures, a choreography between what is seen and what is missed.
These are the in-betweens where inheritances, recollections, speculations begin to unravel. They surface obliquely, carried in shadows, reflections and afterimages. It is in these instabilities, where machines, humans, and the forces between the two entangle, to start functioning as carriers of histories, memories and futures.
Featuring Nicole Khadivi (Sweden), The Back Studio (India), and Yousuke Fuyama (Japan).