Rashid Rana - Contemporary Artists

Veil Series I, II & III

The Saatchi Gallery
 

Rashid Rana

Veil Series I, II & III

2004
3 C prints + DIASEC

51 x 51 cm each

Using photography and collage, Rashid Rana borrows from contemporary Indian cinema and western pornography in order to critique social culture. In Veil I, Veil II & III, Rana photographed an anonymous figure dressed in a burqa against a pixelated background. Upon further inspection, the work is actually a fragmented collage made-up of thousands of small, unfocused pornographic stills of women in the act of sexual intercourse. Rana’s works are charged with the juxtaposition of exhibitionism and personal anonymity, demonstrating his deliberate intention to unsettle cultural realities head-on.
 
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