Jitish Kallat
Art Basel Hong Kong Encounters
As part of Art Basel Hong Kong, Jitish Kallat is participating in Encounters presenting his series Wind Study (Hilbert Curve), from March 28 to March 30, 2024.
The suite of meditative works on paper titled Wind Study – Hilbert Curve. represents ‘ transcripts derived by eavesdropping on the silent conversation between wind and fire”.The drawings derive their form from the Hilbert Curves, continuous fractal space-filling curves first described by the German
mathematician in 1891. To create them, Kallat ritualistically overlays it one small line at a time, setting aflame each one with an inflammable liquid. The movement of wind at the moment of combustion determines the direction in which the fumes leave their marks on the paper registering invisible atmospheric flows.
Wind Study (Hilbert Curve) 1
The artist
Born in 1974 in Mumbai, Jitish Kallat is one of the most promising artists of his generation. Jitish Kallat’s work, imbued with autobiographical, political and artistic references, forms a narrative of the cycle of life in a rapidly changing India. Weaving together strands of sociology, biology and archaeology, the artist takes an ironic and poetic look at the altered relationship between nature and culture.
