Running from January 9 to February 9, 2025, BRAIN ROT offers a compelling exploration of modern lifestyles through an eclectic mix of textiles, sculptures, and collages. With a sharp satirical lens, Khanna examines the routines and habits of contemporary life, challenging audiences to reflect on their own daily pursuits. The exhibition’s central question, “The Life You Live?”, encourages introspection and a personal connection to the dramatic and absurdist figures in his work.
The exhibition will open with a special showcase as part of Mumbai Gallery Weekend from January 9 to 12, 2025, between 11:00 AM and 9:00 PM.
Creative Director Sanjana Shah shares, “Curating Viraj Khanna is always an exciting experience. His work defies easy explanation but at the same time is entertaining, vivid, and bold. It’s important for each of his sculptural pieces to be given breathing space as the narratives are deeply layered and detailed. I’m sure whoever comes into the ‘Brainrot’ exhibition will find themselves immersed in a world familiar and introspective. Given that this word was termed the Oxford word of 2024, it is something that Viraj and I felt would be most apt in our current cultural context!”
Raised amidst textiles and embroidery, Khanna draws deeply from these influences to create his unique artistic language. From intricate collages to experimental sculptural forms, his creations highlight the fragility and imperfections of life, delivering a bold commentary on society’s relentless chase for perfection.
Artist Viraj Khanna shares, “My attempt is to push the embroidery medium forward. I have experimented with a lot of new materials this time! It has been challenging as well as quite rewarding. I am also commenting on our ‘social media’ lives and how we are represented by the images we consume online.”
The juxtaposition of innovative materials and layered narratives makes BRAIN ROT a must-visit exhibition for art enthusiasts and cultural connoisseurs alike. Don’t miss this extraordinary exhibition that dares to question the essence of modern living.
Exhibition Details:
Dates: January 9 – February 9, 2025
Special Showcase: Mumbai Gallery Weekend, January 9–12, 2025 (11:00 AM – 9:00 PM)
Venue: Tao Art Gallery, Mumbai
Growing up surrounded by art, especially textiles and embroidery has helped Khanna develop a certain aesthetic when it comes to the way he sees and creates things. Embroidery work and textile involves putting different materials, fabrics and and other elements together to express certain feelings, perceptions or visions. Transmuting to paintings, sculptures and collages has been somewhat a liberating space where similar concepts and philosophies can be expressed in a totally different architecture. Viraj always believed that creativity is not inborn, it’s something you work on and get better the more you try. So he has never been intimidated by working with new materials and spaces. He started out with collage work – cut up pieces of magazines, articles, encyclopedias and things around me to create objects or images of meaning – and gradually moved onto more sculptural forms with the base idea emerging from the original collage work. The work depicts a discontinuity in the flow of things, of how imperfection runs deep in the core of everyday lives.The human condition is always striving towards ‘perfection’ per se, and we pointlessly spend our time trying to build a life where we seem invulnerable. The artist lives and works out of Kolkata, India.
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