Working across sculptural installations, drawings, poetry, audio, light, and performance to create immersive environments, the Indian artist Amol Patil (b. 1987, Mumbai) shines a light on what is often overlooked.
A stark reminder of the realities of the Indian caste system, Patil explores the experiences of labourers who migrate from rural India to Mumbai in search of work. Repeatedly returning to the chawls of Mumbai, where these workers live, he turns these living structures into poetry. A descendant of protest artists (with a theatre-activist father and a poet grandfather who wrote Powada protest songs), Patil collaborates intergenerationally across time, blending past and present to treat memory as something active and currently lived, highlighting how the ongoing struggles of precarity, migration, and invisibility are just as present today.
