RAQs Media Collection

The National Gallery of Modern Art conducted a walk through Raqs Media Collective’s collections recently. The walk consisted of interpretations of different art forms with interesting inputs and outputs from the host of the evening and the audience as well. The collection had many facets to it. It had a Yaksha and a Yakshini. The Yaksha and the Yakshini represent mythical beings that are attendants of Kuber, the God of Wealth. They are alluded as the guardians of wealth in literature.

They both are also erected in front of the RBI building. There was a clock which had several words at the 12 hours it had representing the different emotions a human experiences in a 24 hour day. There was another clock which represented ‘A day in the life of Kiribati’. Kiribati is an Independent island nation in the central Pacific Ocean. It is said that Kiribati would be the first city to be drowned due to Global Warming. The clock shows the different emotions the people of Kiribati will experience on the day of destruction. There was also a section dedicated to Majdoors or labourers.

It had cuttings of different newspaper or newsletters which had various news related to Majdoors of that time. The collection also had a Mahabharata section which had 18 parts, just like the Mahabharata has 18 chapters. The whole exhibition had various different and unusual art forms.

Raqs Media Collective is a group of three media practitioners- Jeebesh Bagachi, Monica Narula and Suddhabrata Sengupta- based in New Delhi. It is best known for its contribution to contemporary art.

Picture Credits : Neel Kamal Pandey, OneWprldNews