Mirror Mirror by Avinash Veeraraghavan

Description

Mirror Mirror features a four-colour lithograph of a patchwork of patterns, created using all seventeen symmetry types. The source tiles of the patterns are minute abstracted details of a raw vision painting by Taehee Kim, who, being diagnosed as autistic, faces challenges in verbal and written communication. This fact was an important element in deciding to use the painting, as Veeraraghavan responds very closely to works that are completely visual and speak for the artist. A tightly cropped translucent image of a stone sculpture of a little boy looking into a mirror is screen printed on top of the pattern base.

Avinash Veeraraghavan (b. 1975, based in Bangalore) draws on his interest in visual culture, craft, and digital imaging to create layered prints, graphic books, multichannel video installations, and embroideries. He has been involved with the practice of image construction through meticulously manipulated digital images. that are skilfully layered and juxtaposed to open up new possibilities of meaning. The complex visual collages reflect a deep-rooted and often manic exploration of the structure of emotions and the interstices of the psyche and the mind. Veeraraghavan has struggled with his mental health for over two decades and has used his practice to explore the nature of his visions. His dreams by day and night have been a fundamental and prominent part of his life and have informed his work for much of his career. He most often produces work as a form of catharsis and in an attempt to describe the structure and content of his hallucinations.

Avinash Veeraraghavan’s recent solo presentations include Days Gone By, GALLERYSKE, New Delhi (2022), 1024 Names, GALLERYSKE, Bangalore (2016), We do not see things the way they are, we see things the way we are at GALLERYSKE, New Delhi (2014), an exhibition at the Tilton Gallery, New York (2013), and Crazy Jane and Jack the journey man at Galerie Krinzinger, Vienna (2011). His work has featured at the Kiran Nadar Museum of Art, New Delhi (2025), in the Kochi-Muziris Biennale 2016, in the Prague Biennale (2011), at Urban Manners 1 and 2, curated by Adelina Von Furstenberg, at the Art for The World at SESC Pompeia, Sao Paulo (2010), and in the traveling exhibition Indian Highway which was presented at the Ullens Center for Contemporary Art, Beijing (2012), Herning Museum of Contemporary Art, Denmark (2010) and Astrup Fearnley Museum of Modern Art, Oslo (2009). In 2009, Veeraraghavan was the recipient of the Illy Sustain Art Prize awarded in Madrid.

Mirror Mirror has been produced as a fundraiser edition for Reliable Copy at Atelier Prati, Bangalore.