Rohit Sapra

Lives and works in Delhi, India

Artist statement

(b.1990) I am a multidisciplinary artist, living in India. Coming from a design background I evolved my relationship with materials to interpret the themes of contemporary art culture. My practice dwells in the form of installations and sculptures to build experiential narratives, with material explorations that challenge human psychology, and questions the relationship between the mental (experience of the senses) and the material (external reality) that triggering the elements of consciousness. Being born in a diverse religious family, my fascination with English subjects since childhood and ways of looking at things and deriving philosophical interpretations all somehow are reflected in my art practice. I use these ideas in relation to social subjects and enlarge them in my art projects. My approach with materials explores and reflects the intentions to communicate social observations evaluating the roles of gender, religion, and language visible in my work, with a dependency on materials to convey the thought. Inspired by the thought I experiment with materials like light, sound, language, and space in creating work that expects indulgence and highlights the note of perception triggering the senses My intent of communicating through material allows me to create a zone of increased sensuality, that matches mental and material psychology. I intend to highlight how perception and depiction throw up cognitive conundrums that push beyond the limits of conventional logic. My...

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