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2011
Art Dubai (in collaboration with Chemould Prescott Road)
2007
Dis-Location, Art & Public – Cabinet PH, Geneva, Switzerland
2007
Dis-Location, Chatterjee & Lal & Chemould Prescott Road, Mumbai, India
2006
Reflected Looking, Nature Morte, New Delhi, India
2005
Identical Views, Chatterjee & Lal, Mumbai, India
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Artist's Statement
Fragment of code, constituent part of a digital image, square integer of colour that melts into the surface, a pixel is nothing you can hold, nothing you should see. Its meaning lies in its own effacement; a pixel 'works' only if it becomes invisible through being subsumed into a larger image. A digital picture that shows its pixels is clumsy, inept: it transgresses the norms of a well-made image. So there are well-behaved digital images that obey these rules, and then there is Rashid Rana's work. From 2002 on, this Pakistani artist has produced a series of increasingly complex and ambitious works that use the phenomenon of pixilation as their mode and metaphor. Pixilation is Rana's mode, in that he builds his large prints by amassing thousands, or hundreds of thousands, of smaller images that become 'pixels' in service of a bigger picture. And pixilation is Rana's metaphor, because through the relationship between the larger image and its constituent elements, he leads us to meditations about part and whole, surface and depth, fragment and meaning.
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