VIKRAM DIVECHA

Beirut-born (1977), Mumbai-bred, Vikram Divecha is an artist based in Dubai. He holds an MFA in Visual Art from Columbia University and was a participant of the Whitney Museum’s Independent Study program. Divecha’s practice shifts between public art, site-specific interventions, installation, film, painting, drawing, photography and text.

His practice raises questions about time, value and authorship by engaging people across urban and social spheres, and working with available material and space. Meaning making is not limited to the reception of the artwork but emerges within the social processes of artistic production itself - for more than participants he seeks an aesthetic participation. Divecha has come to define this conceptual and collaborative approach around what he calls 'found processes’ - those forces and capacities at work within state, social, economic and industrial spheres. Working with available material, space and labour Divecha attempts to realign the social and urban systems we inhabit by introducing alterations and interventions. From wholesale exporters to municipal gardeners, architectural consultants to railway traffic managers, Divecha’s participants inform and shape his projects in various ways, at times generating sustained social associations.