"Figure of Line | Diffusion 2" by Yogesh Barve
15" X 20" framed
Pen on paper (2022)
About the Artwork
These Pen Plotter works of Yogesh’s are Mechanical and digital interventions to examine the role of the artist in transgressing rules of making and hierarchies fixed through social convention. They also bring focus to rules and institutions that govern behaviour and show the possibilities of art interrupting established patterns.
About the Artist
Yogesh Barve (b. 1989) is a conceptual artist from Mumbai, India. His artistic practice spans various mediums, including drawing, painting, sculpture, video and other digital technologies alongside the repurposing of found objects.
Barve’s work challenges established norms and binary structures, utilising the slash as a symbol of un/learning, de/constructing, and non/conformism. Barve has often created immersive environments that integrate work and non-work, studio and city, personal and public realms. He employs minimalist visual elements to convey complex ideas about equality and strives to democratise technology, advocating for its accessibility as a form of decolonisation. Since 2017, Barve has run a YouTube channel called Dalit Poetry and Literature to bring attention to literature outside the Brahmanical canon.
Barve has been part of 2nd Transnational Pavilion at the 55th Venice Biennale in 2013, has exhibited at Parasite in Hong Kong, and at the Kadist Art Foundation and the Fondation Lucien Paye in Paris. In 2015, he was invited for a residency at Google Cultural Institute, Paris, as part of the 89 plus program curated by Hans Ulrich Obrist, Simon Castets and Julie Boukobza; and was featured in “How little you know about me” by Joowon Park at National Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art, Seoul, South Korea in 2018, amongst other group exhibitions since 2012. He was a participating artist (2012-21) and later the artistic director (2016-18) at Clark House Initiative, Mumbai.
