MINOR WORK: Vikram Divecha

Gallery Isabelle van den Eynde is pleased to present Vikram Divecha's works in a solo exhibition Minor Work, curated by Murtaza Vali.

Over the last few years, Vikram Divecha has realised a series of ambitiously scaled and publically sited projects across the United Arab Emirates, each realised through an engagement with what he terms "found processes." Collaborating with various institutions, infrastructures, and communities, Divecha identifies hidden seams within pre-existing systems of urban life, through which he introduces "glitches" that, if only temporarily, disrupt the status quo, creating interventions and installations that bring otherwise invisible structures and operations into plain view. 

Boulder Plot (2014) was a monumental but temporary public installation that consisted of a carefully gridded arrangement of boulders sourced from the mountain quarries of Ras Al Khaimah, on the United Arab Emirates' east coast, and destined to become building material for Dubai's hyperactive construction industry. For Shaping Resistance (2015), Divecha collaborated with municipality gardeners in Sharjah to introduce a set of subtle vernacular disruptions into the otherwise regimented hedge design of the popular lagoon-side Al Majaz Park, a temporary intervention that has become a permanent feature in the park. And in last year's Warehouse Project (2016), where the artist converted a warehouse structure in Alserkal Avenue's extension, newly built for art and culture activity, into a fully functioning storage facility for commercial goods, orchestrating a node where two disparate economic systems temporarily intersected, playfully blurring the distinction between art object and commodity.