Artist Ravi Kumar Chaurasiya’s works engage with the politics of migration and urbanisation. His works depict disasters that are by-products of human civilisation. The image of a mushroom cloud recurs in his works, reminding us of the greatest crime by the human hand, the ‘nuclear explosion’. The tiny houses that pepper the whole landscape and the yellow colour scheme that resembles the polluted smog of industrial cities reflect the inclement disasters, which humans have brought upon themselves.

In his work ‘Migration’, the figure of a deer on a platform symbolises the commodification of nature. Deers that were very familiar to the artist in his childhood later became a commodity to be paid for in a zoo. The night sky and bulldozers, surrounding the scene of a disaster and present among the mushroom-like houses, also indicates how the increasing population affects nature. Thus, these images depict a critique of society and a perspective towards the present environmental crisis.

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‘Migration’ from Foundation
‘Urban landfill’ from Hic et nunc

Ravi Chaurasiya is an Interdisciplinary artist living and working in New Delhi. His works mostly talk about humanity’s actions towards nature and its aftermath.
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