Born in Dharamsala to Tibetan parents and raised in Switzerland, Kesang Lamdark has one foot in the East and the other in the West. New exhibition focusses on the artist’s practice, which reflects his ongoing negotiation with his Tibetan heritage in a multicultural environment.

Lamdark’s vast repertoire ranges from melted plastic, beer cans and light boxes to both recycled and upcycled readymades. The artist often utilises traditional images derived from Tibetan folklore and religion, reworking and blending them with icons from industrial and consumerist cultures. As writer Maxwell Heller argues in his 2011 essay for the artist’s solo exhibition Son of Rimpoche , ‘[F]or every measure of spiritual levity in his work, there is an equal amount of skepticism, materialistic obsessions, hedonism and pop-culture worship – and this is what holds our curiosity’

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