Rupesh Sudhanshu

Title: Street Affairs

The project Street affairs aims to reinvigorate my personal childhood memories in order to highlight the paradoxical nature of animal devotion and crowd gathering spectacle within Indian culture through a series of paintings. With the aim to comment on the socio-political issues of the present – such as animal sacrifices, rape cases, mob lynching among others, these set of paintings, while individually standing as a commentary on chosen subject and theme, aims to critique the culture of spectatorship while challenging the anmal representation in contemporary art. The core inspiration for these works stem from the lived experiences of growing up in India. Growing up in a religious Indian household with initial studies in vedic school where the dictum revolved around religious texts such as Bhagavad Gita has shaped my perception of looking at the world as a part of cosmic Brahman or the absolute where every being – human and non-human, occupy the same cosmic plane of existence.