cityinflux
RANJIT KANDALGAONKAR
8 January - 14 February 2026
cityinflux
RANJIT KANDALGAONKAR
cityinflux is an endeavour to document the in-between spaces that appear as an aberrant to the norm, but in fact get legitimised due to the inability of the surroundings to linearise lost but recognisable markers defining the city fabric. I have felt that these areas contain glimpses of the unofficial city that perpetually runs unseen, alongside. The work also deals with directing the eye to access just parts of the visual narrative playing out a moment in its entirety. The event thus recorded epitomises a certain identity of the city as a whole which is momentarily revealed in that one gesture. The apparent dead space that forms the backdrop of the images of the city is what interests me: cityinflux is a kind of storehouse of spatial entropy for a city in constant motion. Some of the work presented deals with a build up to a moment, a break in the image, a fracture or a sudden shift. These shifts, be it bodies reacting to their surroundings, or the surrounding itself changing, document the ambiguous settling time in between the events of the city. On viewing these episodes by manoeuvring the media online, the work attempts to highlight and exemplify the conditions under which these temporary moments are exposed to show its inner structure, its apparent sincerity, it's revelatory simplicity. - Ranjit Kandalgaonkar
Artworks
Ranjit Kandalgaonkar
Ranjit Kandalgaonkar’s artistic practice primarily comprises of a lens directed at the urban context of cities. Some of the works map vulnerability within redevelopment strategies of urbanisation or record timelines and ‘blind spots’ - alternate markers of a city that’s unravelling. Most of his long-term projects are research-intensive and attempt to unlock historical and contemporary data by placing the work in the context of an unseen social history.
A study of combative histories of reclamation/ speculation and lost and endangered flora/fauna has led to projects such as '7 Isles unclaimed' and 'Isles Amidst Reclamation'. ‘Modelled Recycled Systems’ (a practice in parallel and ongoing) is a longue-durée project which records ship-breaking practices technologically and studies invisibility within global shipping infrastructures.
Awards & grants include Majlis Visual Arts Fellowship, U.D.R.I. Fellowship, The Leverhulme Trust Artist Residency, Harvard University SAI Artist Residency, The Wellcome Trust Seed Grant, BGSW Artist residency and a Wellcome Collections/Gasworks Artist Residency. His works have been showcased at Bergen Assembly ‘16, Colomboscope ’19, Savvy Contemporary, Art Jameel, 12 Gates Arts, Gallery Ark, Bonniers Konsthall, Warehouse 421, S.a.L.E Docks, Hong-Gah Museum and B.G.S.W amongst others.
