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Vijay Masharani: Big Casino / Kunsthalle Zürich

The exhibition “Big Casino” at the Kunsthalle in Zürich presents works by Vijay Masharani. Vijay Masharani works with video and drawing. His work takes a look at how small actions connect to bigger systems. He doesn't plan his videos fully; instead, he mixes different bits of footage, drawings, and digital stuff he collects. His work shows how things change over time, like in music or films without stories. His art also includes personal touches, like his experiences with city life or illness. His drawings are like a series of pictures that change but don't tell a story in order, often featuring Earth, exploring how we see and think about the world. The exhibition at Kunsthalle Zürich is his first institutional solo show. In this video we have a look at the exhibition on the occasion of the opening reception. Unfortunately, Vijay Masharani wasn't able to come to the opening, so instead of an interview on location, he talks about his work and the exhibition via a video that he has recorded at home. Vijay Masharani: Big Casino is curated by Otto Bonnen. The exhibition runs until May 25, 2025, concurrently to another exhibition at Kunsthalle Zürich, a retrospective of Levan Chogoshvili. Vijay Masharani: Big Casino. Solo exhibition at Kunsthalle Zürich. Zürich (Switzerland), February 7, 2025. Exhibition text (excerpt): Vijay Masharani (b. 1995, lives in New York and Belmont, USA) works with video and drawing. His works test the connections between small gestures and complex systems, asking what forces are at play, and what escapes our perception if we focus solely on details or only see the whole. With patterns that are in a constant state of transmutation, Masharani attempts to analyse this interplay, highlighting the role of the contingent throughout his compositions: across the duration of a video or throughout the production period of a series of drawings. His videos are not the result of fixed planning, but rather emerge as montages of recorded, hand-drawn and digitally rendered material he collects on an ongoing basis. Emphasizing post-production as a significant moment of intervention, he regards each media fragment as one that could potentially be combined again, differently. He flays, spoils and stretches them to fit them together, resulting in loops in which the traces of his interventions are always perceptible. His videos, rooted in repetition and gradual transformation, employ techniques associated with experimental music production and non-narrative cinema. A central visual element frequently remains the focal point of the camera, around which the entire world seems to revolve. As an image of our perception of this world, the assembled elements point to an unseen cosmos of social abstraction, unconscious thought and discarded sensory impressions. Masharani himself is nonetheless always present: sometimes explicitly, through a camera pan to his own face, or more subtly, through animated interventions that deliberately emphasise the subjective reworking of the material. In addition, aspects of the artist’s biography are encoded within the work – particularly his interest in how traversing urban space transforms consciousness, and his recent experience with illness. Through a combination of direct representation of individual elements in their surroundings and the demonstrative transformation of images and sounds, he moves between documentary modalities and artificial, abstract dreamscapes. The friction between representation and abstraction creates effects of recognition or misrecognition, estrangement or objectification, stuckness or unmooredness, disorientation or uncanny awareness. #vijaymasharani #bigcasino Join our channel for early access and exclusive videos: https://www.youtube.com/vernissagetv/... More videos on contemporary art, design, architecture: http://vernissage.tv Connect:   / vernissagetv     / vernissagetv     / vernissagetv   Browse our Archive: http://vernissage.tv/archive/posts/ Find Artists, Designers, Architects: http://vernissage.tv/archive/artists/ Art TV pioneer Vernissage TV provides you with an authentic insight into the world of contemporary fine arts, design and architecture. With its two main series "No Comment" and "Interviews", art tv channel VernissageTV attends opening receptions of exhibitions worldwide, interviews artists, designers, architects. VTV provides art lovers with news, reports and features from the international art scene. VernissageTV: the window to the art world. Das Fenster zur Kunstwelt. La fenêtre sur le monde de l'art. A janela para o mundo da arte. La ventana al mundo del arte. نافذة على عالم الفن. 到艺术世界的窗口。Окно в мир искусства. Since 2005.