Hardeep Pandhal on his experiences growing up as a British-Sikh man in the UK, and how it inspires his playful and darkly funny multimedia work. This artist talk will be moderated by Delhi based curator Shaunak Mahbubani.
Hardeep Pandhal’s postcolonial practice encompasses a variety of mediums, including drawings, knitwear, video, and installation. In recent years, Hardeep has had solo exhibitions at Collective in Edinburgh, David Dale in Glasgow, Spike Island in Bristol and Institute of Contemporary Art in London. He is represented by Jhaveri Contemporary in India and will be showing at India Art Fair for the first time in 2019.
Shaunak Mahbubani is a Delhi based curator, whose central focus is complicating the boundary between the work and the viewer through the deployment of participatory devices, diffusions, and the use of non-white cube spaces. His past curatorial work includes Towards Resistance at TIFA in 2017, Others & I: Tales of Growing Up at 1 Shanthi Roadin 2016, and an ongoing multi-part exhibition series titled Allies for the Uncertain Futures.