RAJKAMAL KAHLON
We’ve Come a Long Way to be Together is a series of portraits of travellers from Africa, Asia and the Middle East painted on top of ....
Die Völker der Erde, a 1902 German scientific book is cut-up and its pages are used as a space to "talk back" ...
The portrait project is a response to the central role of photography in larger colonial projects...
Twenty-Four volunteer readers took turns reading from the List of Deaths over a period of 8 hours. The reading took place on September 7, 2019....
A new series of mixed-media paintings are created directly on the pages of Dr. Carl Stratz's book Die Rassenschönheit des Weibes, an example of racial pornographic....
The project reimagines ethnic portraiture and folk costumes in the former Yugoslavia, through the lens of the country's civil wars...
The project borrows the CIA term, Blowback, to address the relationship between anthropological portraiture and political violence labeled as "terrorism."...
High Resolution thermal imagery of bombing footage of an American AC-130 Speecter Gunship attack is overplayed by photographs of Afghan men...
The project addresses autopsy reports and death certificates emerging from US military bases in Iraq and Afghanistan...
A diagram of stereoscopic vision is quoted from René Descarte's La Dioptrique together with miniature ...
Eigon Von Eickstedt, a German biological anthopologist, who traveled to India to measure and study the Adavasi, created over 12,000 photos...
The portraits in the series are made of scientists, anthologists and ethnographic museum directors...
The project is a performative work about guilt, complicity and the denial of an essentialized historical subject..,.
Double Take subverts Eurropean images of South Asian people and geographies
through reimagined life-sized....
This marked my first public performance and continued my exploration of the transformed and grotesque body...
The commissioned set of drawings about state violence are made on the pages of Carl von Ossietsky's collected writings...
The book, purchased at auction,
cut apart, becomes the starting point of a reimagining of traumatic colonial...
This project dating from 2001 marks my first work with cutting up old books, then drawing and painting onto the book pages...
Writings, Interviews
My writings on Art, Ethnography and Radical Pedagogy.
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