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Untitled
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Value 20
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Reconstructed Memory
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Continuum
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The Golden Landscape
Raj Jariwala (b.1993, Surat, Gujarat) did his BFA from Surat School of Fine Arts, Surat (2011-2015) and MFA from Shiv Nadar University, Greater Noida (2015- 2017). He is currently an artist in residence at Space Studios in Baroda. As part of his practice and research he is interested in analyzing the process of map-making from an objective, outsider point of view. It is an attempt to understand and explore the nuances of cartography and what goes into it. The artist’s work observes that there exists a distancing between the information received as an outsider and reality encountered as an insider. Raj Jariwala’s work is concerned with data and its interpretation in various contexts. In the information age where data can be empirical, testimonial or generated by (un)verified sources vis-a-vis social media and news outlets, our perception of history, society and politics lies at an ambiguous point of confluence of all sources. In his series of drawings he challenges the status of empirical quantities as crutches for a corporatized scientific world through a visual recreation of the Fibonacci series, upon which he imposes a freeform, random numerical landscape.
