Project 88 presents Rabbit Hole, Encountering a strange creature – the White Rabbit, impeccably dressed with a pocket watch, but in a hurry- Lewis Carroll’s protagonist, Alice, follows him instinctively into a “large rabbit-hole under the hedge.” As she falls, Carroll conjures an otherworldly landscape underground, where perspectival realism collapses under the slightest point of stress; here, time slows down, spatial proportions twist askew, and the depths of the earth exhume distorted relics of modernity. This precise moment (and movement) – a free fall into the unfamiliar – becomes a simultaneous point of entry (and exit) into Amitesh Shrivastava’s eerie, immersive, and luminous painterly compositions. Comprising six life-sized diptychs, Rabbit Hole forges a sensorial adventure: textured hues of blues, browns, and blood red appear to obscure a source of light, a lingering abyss rendered visceral. But if one moves closer, these pixels saturate, and the image dissolves.
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