Sleeping animals jitish kallat epilogue

Born in Mumbai in 1974, Jitish Kallat’s artistic practice is wide ranging conceptually and materially. His work frequently shifts orders of magnitude, mediating the complexities of our world from the immediacy of the self and the city, to broader constructs of nationhood and the expansive cosmos.

Sleeping animals jitish kallat epilogue

His work blurs the intersections of science, philosophy, history and mathematics. Over the past three decades, Kallat’s works have often critically investigated existential and ecological frameworks, exploring them through recurrent motifs of time, mortality, and sustenance.

While some of Kallat’s works reflect on the transient present, others invoke the past through historical archives or citations of utterances. Using abstract, schematic, and representational languages, he engages different modes of address, viewing the ephemeral within the context of the perpetual, the everyday in juxtaposition with the historic, and the microscopic alongside the telescopic.

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