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Raqs Media Collective, founded in 1992, is a Delhi-based artist and curatorial collective composed of the trio Monica Narula, Jeebesh Bagchi and Shuddhabrata Sengupta. The present lot, titled One Four Four Zero, comprises 1440 differently shaped crystal perspex tubes sitting in an empty clock, in an arrangement reminiscent of a dense urban skyline. It hints at some of the challenges of fast-paced city life, such as "the conditions that... Raqs Media Collective, founded in 1992, is a Delhi-based artist and curatorial collective composed of the trio Monica Narula, Jeebesh Bagchi and Shuddhabrata Sengupta. The present lot, titled One Four Four Zero, comprises 1440 differently shaped crystal perspex tubes sitting in an empty clock, in an arrangement reminiscent of a dense urban skyline. It hints at some of the challenges of fast-paced city life, such as "the conditions that people are compelled to inhabit - prolonged stretches of distortion in ambient light levels, irregularities in sleep and wakefulness, induced by transcontinental flights, overwork, pharmaceuticals or torture - [which] lead to distortions in the somatic sense of time. Then, time is really out of joint, under our skins, in our bones." (Raqs Media Collective, raqsmediacollective.net, online). The present lot was exhibited as part of their multimedia installation Escapement at the Frith Street Gallery in London in 2009. The installation invoked the concept of time through motifs such as clocks, time zones and geography to explore the idea of contemporaneity and the present.

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