Forthcoming
Opening 9 November, 6pm
Exhibition with Asta Meldal Lynge and Matilda Tjäder
Le Bourgeois, London
16 November
Extended Hours
Performance, with John Andrew Wilhite-Hannisdal
Kunstnerneshus, Oslo
Nikhil Vettukattil
vettukattil[at]gmail.com
b. 1990 Bangalore, India
Lives and works in Oslo, Norway
2019
An Analog for Listening, flatness.eu
2018
Words Fail Me, Auto Italia, London
Eyecatcher III, Focal Point Gallery, Southend
The Conch, South London Gallery, London
2017
SECURICOR, for Now, How?, DECAD, Berlin
Denying the Inflammability of the Twigs Found in the Copse This Morning
3236RLS/Le Bourgeois, London
Bizoux.online, Banner Repeater, London
Perception is Reading, Cashmere Radio, Reboot.fm and Transmediale, Berlin
2016
A Gift Given in Feudal Fashion, Almanac Projects, London
Dream Works, Lethaby Gallery, London
Cosmopolitan Universal Cinema, Close-Up, London
I don’t wanna curate anymore, I just wanna accumulate content, Chalton Gallery, London
Cosmopolitan Universal Cinema, Arnolfini, Bristol
Kings Cross Continental, KC Continental, London
2015
juice, Acme Project Space, London
2014
Image to Scale, William Road Gallery, London
You are all so tired, Swiss Institute, New York
2012
Degree Show, Central St. Martins, London
WARD: Stranger than Paradise, Shacklewell Arms, London
2011
Drawing Installation, Pratt Institute, New York
2010
Junction, 37 Camden High St., London
Installation, Trinity Buoy Wharf, London
The A-Course: An Inquiry, Central St. Martins, London
Talks & Papers
March 2017 - ‘On the Crisis of Parliamentarism and Democracy’, Historical Materialism, BICAR, Beirut
May 2015 – Speaker & Panel Organiser ‘Image and History: Benjamin, Adorno, Kluge’ 8th International Critical Theory Conference of Rome
Residencies, Online commissions, & Awards
March 2018 - FORM IV, THING 011: arkhe II (aperion), formiv.com
June 2017 -Either the nearest or the farthest away, commission for Bizoux.online
June 2015 – stack effect Acme Online commission
Selected Writing
Words Fail Me, Auto Italia, London, 2018
Pagan Oak (Four Seasons), co-authored with Matilda Tjader on the occasion of the exhibition
Vivaldi was the day you get were in town and I can just meet him, Penarth Centre, London, 2017
2013-2016 CSM Associate Studio Programme
2013-2015 MA Contemporary European Philosophy, Kingston University/ Paris VIII
2009-2012 BA Fine Art, Central St. Martins, London
2011 Pratt Institute, New York
Nothing remains of the perfectly mapped textures and the exacting reflections of the architectural rendering. In the atemporal light of a cloudy day, the images that line the construction hoarding seem to now reference an imagined past more than a prospective future. One panel features cars driving on the wrong side of the road. Another contains a gleeful pedestrian with a vanishing foot. The isomorphic repetition of the plants mirrors the copy and paste images of the occupants. The indifference of the composition reminded her of Netherlandish Proverbs, though here too the idioms seemed peculiarly obscured by time.
The birds, the birds which sound like ringtones, ringtones from a decade prior to now.
What's more, a bird is on this balcony,
it says to me:
“Grand Vals, Francesco Tárrega, Nineteen-Oh-Two”.
Silence. Another bird has begun to peck at the trail of vomit running down the stairwell. More and more of these tiny birds, pecking, chirping, Grand Vals, Francesco Tárrega, Nineteen-Oh-Two.
I wake up
Silence.
Hello?
on your ears
Like someone breathing
.
while sleeping
next to you
heavy
as if you'd arrived late
and interrupting
.
finger grease on the windowpane
leaves a trace, like
thawing ice
on cardboard
street noise bleeding
palms stretched.
Nikhil Vettukattil is an artist and writer based in Oslo. His practice concerns the role of representation and image-making processes in framing and remaking lived experience. Using sound, moving image and sculpture, his work often explores the ways art and cinema mediate everyday life and historical experience. Recent projects include ‘Words Fail Me’ at Auto Italia, London, ‘Denying the Inflammability of the Twigs Found in the Copse This Morning’ at Le Bourgeois, London, ‘Perception is Reading’ for Notes/Cashmere Radio, Berlin, ‘Either the nearest or the farthest away’ for bizoux.online, and ‘Cosmopolitan Universal Cinema’ at Arnolfini, Bristol and Close-Up, London.