Khoj Studios presents a unique show of art installations exploring the theme of food by artists from around the world

Five artists and artists collectives from about the apple who accept formed during a ages continued address at Khoj Studios – Andrea Caretto and Raffaella Spagna (Italy); Julian Abraham (Indonesia); Alfonso Borragan (UK); Ruchika Negi and Amit Mahanti of Frameworks Aggregate (Delhi, India) and Shweta Bhattad (Nagpur, India) – accept explored the broader ecological contemporary finer in accessible spaces about Delhi with a appropriate focus on the angle of food: aliment as aesthetic average accumulation performance, art installations or alternate contest that check the acceptation and appliance of aliment in the amusing context, artlessly in its affiliation with the physique or as a primary ritual that fosters engagement, alternation and collaboration. Artists Profiles and Their plan concepts: Shweta Bhattad Born in 1984 in Nagpur, Shweta Bhattad did her Bachelor's in carve from her hometown and her masters in Carve from M.S.U Baroda. She was awarded with gold badge and arete scholarship for her works in the field, in year 2011 from M.S.U. Known for her amazing afflicted aliment fabricated from wax that appears both beauteous and humorous, Shweta has formed beyond disciplines with actual altered approaches. This includes her plan about cogent issues that came alternating during her years of alive with women who were victims of animal abuse. Some of these works were afresh credible in a accumulation show, "And the Falchion Passed through His Neck" at Gallery Latitude 28, curated by Jasmine Wahi, a New York based curator. Shweta has alternate in abounding accumulation shows at Lalit Kala National Exhibition, Bombay Art Society, Bombay Art Fair, and M.S.U. Baroda to name a few and has aswell captivated a abandoned appearance "Wax Magic" at the SCZCC (South Central Zone Cultural Centre), Nagpur in year 2005. She lives and works from her afresh fabricated flat in her hometown Nagpur, India. About her work Title: A THREE COURSE MEAL & DESSERT OF VOMIT Stemming from austere ecology realities of all-around abating and acute changes this plan explores issues surrounding ‘food' – its production, balance and credible absence decidedly in ablaze of (Indian) government behavior and corruption of our agro assets over the accomplished few decades. The plan addresses issues surrounding inaccessibility and absence of aliment for abounding alive on the streets in adverse to admirable celebrations, festivities, all-embracing accouterment establishments with its affluence and balance of aliment and its consecutive wastage. This balance and diffusion of aliment is referred to actuality as ‘vomit', apparent in ablaze of its broader ambience of induced starvation – with the producers of aliment – farmers - apprenticed to suicides and the marginalized and a all-inclusive area of the citizenry accountable to comb about for food. The activity attempts to experientially accompany in and reflect aloft these disparate adventures through sculptural installation, video and achievement aswell accumulation the authoritative and use of afflicted but actual real-looking 'wax' food. Alfonso Borragán Alfonso Borragán, acquired his Bachelor's Fine Arts Degree in Barcelona area he started to plan with ablaze and photography. He currently lives and works in London area he is belief a MFA in Slade School of Fine Arts, London. Tired of how cogent technology has become for bodies and aloft all in accurate cameras, he has started to physique his own artifacts to coursing ablaze and fix it in pictures, arena consistently with the abracadabra and the animal body. The abstraction of exploring the unknown, self-sufficiency, adaptation and time are the factors a lot of cogent in his work. He usually relates his plan to the aforementioned amplitude they are in, application the concrete and cultural abstracts that are already present. Over endure few years, he has focused his analysis on rituals in the burghal city-limits as a average to acquaint his work. The aggregate anniversary becomes a agency to aperture out to adventures through the artwork getting displayed in the process. Alfonso has developed and aggregate works in Barcelona, Madrid, Toledo, Granada, Canary Islands, Lisbon, Bristol, London, Dessau, Goldegg and Basel. His plan was apparent afresh at Bienal de Arte Efímero de Granada (black ceramics), Bolit centre d'Art Contemporani (landscapes), Gerra (Cantabria), Leighwoods (Bristol) and Slade (London). About his plan – Alfonso Borragan Title: FOSFOFAGIAS Over the accomplished few years, a abundant allotment of my plan has developed to be evocative of common celebrations and rituals that brainwash the ambition and will to share. ‘Food' has emerged in my plan as a strategy, an airy achievement acceptance absolute accord of the eyewitness into the work. People besiege about a table, architecture adjacency and advice and bond the angle of age-old rituals with abreast habits of a avant-garde society. In added words, aliment stimulates the senses by breeding an extrasensory acquaintance that allows the beholder the analysis of new worlds. The banquets and ceremonies are a accepted representation of circadian activity community area the eyewitness opens out to an experience. This is the acumen for situating my plan aural this architecture wherein the activity manages to accomplish a activating and alive account and apprehension of the artwork. The abstraction of a august ritual not alone lends itself to getting allotment of the plan but aswell to the actual act of bistro and arresting the same. For the appearance at Khoj, I adduce to actualize agnate aliment interfaces - ‘Fosfofagias' - in markets and accessible spaces through exploring the abstraction of affairs ‘fluorescent' aliment in the streets of Delhi. The ‘Fosfofagias' are ceremonies in an intriguing, aphotic amplitude with beaming alcohol and food; a aggregate anniversary area senses become afflicted by the absence of accepted light, maximizing taste, blow and smell. Furthermore, the actor is arrive to eat the aesthetic section and the ingested ablaze will be ejected from the physique causing fluorescence in the amoebic waste: faeces, urine, sweat, saliva or tears.