IN/CUBE Residency (January - March 2022): Mohit Shelare

Mohit Shelare is an artist currently working between Amravati and Delhi. His practice constructs thinking around body, waste, and resistance, which intertwine with each other and draw the sites, events, and conditions. He makes performances, objects, drawings, and text.

Mohit facilitates research and conducts modules in universities and institutions. Presently, he serves as visiting faculty at the National Institute of Design, Kurukshetra. His participations include Prince Claus Seed Awards, Netherlands, 2022. Regional Art Assembly, Australia, 2021 (online studio residency). Staging the contemporary: The next generation 2022 (symposium). Home Workspace Programme, Ashkal Alwan, Lebanon, 2019. Five Million Incidents, India, 2019. Kochi Student’s Biennale, India, 2016. Sifting Futur, Switzerland, 2015 (residency).

As part of his residency starting in January, Mohit worked with research based investigations, studying violent imagery circulated by media and its intersections with anti-caste philosophies. He developed lecture-performances and multi-directional conversations through his research that took shape alongside drawings, videos, text and sound.

Open Studio: Mohit Shelare

Insoluble Substances and Separate Existence was a research-based investigation by Mohit Shelare that examined the means of violence across multiple incidents and ideas. Deconstructing the theological and political beliefs of the self and materializing a New Buddhist reasoning into the conversation, Mohit brought together images of violence, conceptions of food, and the politics of remains through text, images, objects and sketchbooks. Cutting sharply through existing measures, vocabularies and stances, the residency immersed itself in artistic research processes, and created a conversation with different publics via the open studio and lecture performances.