The Yamuna project

2007 opening Residency at KHOJ focuses on the theme of eco  art. It hosts two Delhi based artists, Atul Bhalla who works with sculpture, performance and photographs and photographer Ravi Aggarwal. Atul is also a teacher, while Ravi pursues environmental issues as director of an environmental NGO Toxics Link (http://www.toxicslink.org/). Both artists have had several years of engagement with the river Yamuna in Delhi as a water and ecological entity.

Both Atul and Ravi, think of the river and its water in a conceptual sense, and relate to it in their work as a personal reflection on the 'self' and the changing city. Alongside is their social concern of the loss of the ecological relationship of the citizens to the degraded river itself and how it has become insignificant in people's imagination over time.

Through the residency, which proposes one joint public project, which allows for larger participation as well as individual projects, they hope to explore the multiple ecologies of the river and the self in the context of the contemporary.
In their words¦ they will eat, drink and drown in it to regain the self.