Amol K Patil Read Bio Collapse
Amol Patil (b. 1987) is a conceptual and performance-artist based in Mumbai. After his education in the visual arts at Rachana Sansad Academy of Fine Arts and Crafts, Mumbai, his work has explored the intersection of performance art, theater, music, kinetic art, and video installation. Patil’s work excavates and investigates family traditions. His grandfather was an interpreter and a poet, and his father was an avant-garde playwright who addressed issues such as the devastating effects of immigration and its traumas through absurd situations in his plays. In Patil’s recent work, he has researched processes of urbanization and the invisibility of the working class in urban imaginaries. His projects build counter-memory and contesting narratives that describe and disturb the relationship between communities and their environments. Patil’s works have been shown at the Kochi-Muziris Biennale, Kochi (2022–23); Documenta 15, Kassel (2022); Yokohama Triennale, Yokohama (2020); Five Million Incidents at the Goethe-Institute / Max Mueller Bhavan, Delhi (2019); and The Showroom, London (2018), among many others.
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As I continue to deepen my understanding of visual language, another source of inspiration is the sense of performativity inherent to gestures. This performativity is evident in the everyday gestures of people at work, while walking, or otherwise getting around the city. I see people as performative bodies, and I also believe that their daily movements themselves embody a kind of larger performative gesture.
