Raqs Media Collective Furniture

Maharam Serpentine Galleries wallpaper Antidote by Raqs Media collective 001 Raqs Media collective consists of Jeebesh Bagchi, Monica Narula and Shuddhabrata Sengupta. Based in Delhi, the collective has been variously described as artists, media practitioners, curators, researchers, editors, and catalysts of cultural processes. Located at the intersection of contemporary art, historical enquiry, philosophical speculation, research and theory, their work often takes the form of installations, online and offline media objects, and performances. In continuous apothecary shelves of painted vials, Antidote offers a remedy to every limitation, excess, or danger one can encounter, whether real or imagined, self-imposed or societally enforced. According to Monica Narula, Antidote represents: “To every fear, its safe-spell. To the toxins of reason, the antidotes of fancy. To the poisons of caution, the remedies of passion. To internal fears, a wallpaper of bottles. To each anxiety, an apothecary’s shelf...