Jitish Kallat b. 1974
108 x 720 in
The seating within the gallery space has been altered by Kallat to assume the shape of the two hands of the Doomsday Clock, a conceptual clock that has been maintained and updated annually by members of the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists’ Science and Security Board since 1947. It uses the analogy of the countdown to midnight– symbolising the apocalypse – to denounce the threats hanging over humanity. This symbolic seating, highlighting the ‘two minute to midnight’ setting of the clock as of 2019 serves as a platform for possible interactions offering an altered perspective to the themes enshrined in this enormous painting.
Exhibitions
January 10 - 21 2020, Terranum Nuncius, co-presented by Nature Morte and Chemould Prescott Road, Famous Studio, Mumbai, IndiaJanuary 29 - February 19, 2020, Terranum Nuncius, The Centre of Contemporary Art, Bikaner House, New Delhi, India