May 08, 2012

Rana’s Photographic Revelations

Rashid Rana’s artworks were on exhibit at Lisson Gallery at Frieze, and he may be the most famous Indian an Southeast Asian artist in the world; it is this rare edition of the intimate and complex Re-ornamented I (2004), for which he is most critically acclaimed.

Rana uses thousands of tiny photographic images of sexual, social, and political issues and injustices in South Asia to re-create the composition of larger images, in this case the entrance to a religious temple.