Rì Galerie is exhilarated to present People Like Us, an online solo exhibition by the Indian artist Rohit Kumar which showcases 14 paintings of his recent work and rice painting. The exhibition will be on-viewed from 22nd Aug to 23rd Oct 2022.

The foregrounding of identity in contemporary cultural production has long been evident, however, there is an increasing tempo to these developments within contemporary art, intertwined with a toxic politico-media culture worldwide.

This kind of globalization socio-political landscape is explored through different perspectives on the comprehensive response of contemporary society and the problems that arise. This includes art that emerges, not just from a personal creative impulse, but also from the collective, and the intersections between individual subjectivity and group agency within the public sphere.

This art is almost always figurative, and if not, is by its very nature engaged with the human condition. It encompasses the art of political resistance; self-determination; feminism, ‘masculinities’ and gender diversity; biopolitics and sexuality; masquerade and personal mythologies; of displacement and forced migration; of trauma, witnessing, and forgotten histories. The work created in this expansive space is largely medium agnostic, and describing such work as a genre of art or even a mode of practice is a glaring category error (often made).

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