February 16 to April 1
As an immigrant artist from formerly colonized India now residing in the United States, Deepanjan Mukhopadhyay's multidisciplinary practice explores the intricate intersections of identity, politics, history, and spectatorship. Compelled by personal and academic inquiries into how colonial legacies shape contemporary experiences, Deepanjan's work delves into the transition from postcolonialism to neocolonialism, paying particular attention to themes of colonial history, labor, and technologies of representation.
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In this installation, Deepanjan Mukhopadhyay explores the uneasy intersection between global power structures and personal vulnerability, employing everyday materials, imagery, and text to spark dialogue about surveillance, patriotism, and the fragile myth of safety. The works in this exhibition deconstruct how violence—both real and symbolic—seeps into the objects and routines that surround people, ultimately blurring the lines between public spectacle and private fear.
Collectively, these works reveal the contradictions at the core of American life: how dreams of “utopia” sit alongside paranoia and insecurity; how mundane infrastructure can mirror entrenched power dynamics; and how personal documents and intimate gestures can be politicized. By drawing attention to the unremarkable artifacts of daily life—bomb-shaped lamps, orange traffic cones, a single index card, or immigration documents — Mukhopadhyay raises questions of complicity, agency, and resistance.
A55A551N4T10N serves as a meditation on how images, objects, and language are co-opted by authority and ideology. At the same time, it suggests avenues for reclamation—demonstrating that, even within controlled or volatile frameworks, it is possible to assert counter-narratives by noticing, re-contextualizing, and reimagining the systems that seek to define them. Through ironic juxtapositions and common materials, the exhibition urges viewers to interrogate what remains hidden in plain sight and how collective engagement might intervene.
Pipe Dream Bomb Lamp approx. 3’x2’x0.5’ (HxWxD) excluding wiring Electrical fittings,electrical wiring, LED bulb, PVC piping, PVC fittings, inkjet print on paper, metal stand and fittings
Workflow approx. 42”x65” (HxW) Archival pigment print on inkjet paper, pushpins
Yours Truly, C.I.A. and George W. Bush approx. 8”x8” (HxW) Note from a friend on index card, acrylic sign holder, plastic suction cups with metal hooks
Life, Liberty, and the pursuit of Happiness approx. 5’x5’x4’ (HxWxD) Toy electronics, electrical wiring and power supply,nylon thread, archival pigment print of scanned immigration document
Deepanjan Mukhopadhyay
www.deepanjan.art
