Jitish Kallat's works represent mental agony as an artist and anxiety resulted from the current Indian society. While Kallat is conflicted between pop art and agitprop, he tries to solve the survival on human strife and endless narratives. Mumbai, where he lives now, is a place where survival in itself is an adventure and shows the extreme aspects of India. Thus, Mumbai becomes a source of stimulation for his artistic practice. Jitish Kallat shows his passionate works toward the whole world as a stage such as worldly praised exhibition, Thermocline Of Art (2007) of ZKM Museum in Germany, New Narratives: Contemporary Art From India (2007) of Cultural Centre in Chicago, and Gwangju Biennale (2006).
Text courtesy Arario Gallery.
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