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RITU PANDEY

Ritu Pandey/@noactualavocados is a visual communicator from Delhi, tired in perpetuity in London.

Born in Bihar to an immigrant Bihari couple in Delhi, she studied Philosophy at IPCW, Delhi University, graduating with BA(Honours) in the infernal contrivance of pointless political thoughts. Between being in a playfield of political absurdism & nonsense archiving, she is a visual communicator working in graphic design, printmaking and paintings.

(Life is a tale, told by an idiot, full of sound and fury, signifying nothing) + (The more I wanted to keep politics aside in m life to devote to art only, the more the life of this country used to return me again and again into the arms of politics) = (Drinking, dancing and not doing anything)

RITU PANDEY-statement

one has found a ritual in the absurd; of socio-political investigations and the collective memory of the stupid in a climate, threatening the survival of the non-stupid in surveillance earth. 

these are absurd calculated improvisations on large-scale printed matter 

as an antithesis to the trillion budget of absolute power 

and a cautionary tale to the blinkers/blisters being imposed by regimes worldwide. 

obsessive hieroglyphic poetic provocations in type and image. 

in form of observational automatic experimentalism.

One is printmaking as a means of ambitious slothing in the pit of neurodiverse helplessness. Living delayed & making delayed. amen to slowing machine parlour trick & disavowal to the capitalistic contract of our lives as a google calendar. 



AAAAAAAAAAA 

“ITS AN ARCHIVE”

“OF?”

“POLITICAL NONSENSE”

“...”

“A COMPENDIUM OF ABSURD FLOURISHES. AN ANTI-CIRCUS-OF-PURPOSE” 

“...”

“WE MUST IMAGINE SYSYPHUS CHILLING IN STARBUCKS. THEY SPELLED HIS NAME WRONG. URGHAIIIIN.'




“this world”

“Yes”

“its affairs”

“ahan”

“an epoch long sigh”

“ou”

“how does one navigate a world of jingoists-in-residence (permanent it feels)” 

“do i assume wrong when i assume there is a point” 

“one doesn’t” 

“is that the point” 

“also who is giving them haircuts?” 

“that IS a point” 

“your whole life, one big bad hair day” 

“..”

“i digress”

“was that not the point”

“lessness?”

“...”

“also because one has attention deficit hyperactivity disorder, one has stopped (c/t)rying” 

“max 50 kgs”

“a pointless protest against the odd job of upholding ethos of *air bunnies* sense *end air bunnies* 

"I prefer (c/p)arrots myself”

"one has decided against rationalising this uncompelling circus. it makes for a sad case of free falling into a dumpster” 

"was it cleared out this morning?"

"one can’t"

“...” 

"of this world, the art world and the underworld"

"persephone and co. were excited about the party" 

"one will live by the manifesto of the absurd"

"but why not"

“one will resist sense and over(explanation)

of the art

and the artist”

“one can just paint flowers and sip chai and read 23597 books in a year and procrastinate stress to oblivion”

“one will chill as the boulder rolls”

“ooh and also learn 33.4 instruments to then dance to it”

“...”

“...”

“...”

“...”

“of the realms of politics and bloodshed one kant even”

“cm’one”

text, whiteboard
diagram
SERIAL BILLER
a close up of a red and white measuring device
text
diagram

A repetitive (poetic and pointless is it?) scream of displacement in the scheme of being a commodity of international cow & cash in the qs ranked NO.1 "art" institution.

commentary

institutional Critique.

censors.

a print to pay back the student debt

I am branded and I feel branded so this is a branding for the brand of THE RCA farce as a 9-5 apathetic chamber corporation, ill-equipped to free mind and making. You will find a burberry coat gliding across time and space to evade walking on the ground same as yous.


Medium:

SCREENPRINT ON PAPER

Size:

1M X 1.5 Metres
MUSKAN KHAN X STATE MOB
MUSKAN KHAN X STATE MOBHijab is being banned in educational institutes of Karnataka. Muskan was attacked by the saffron mob on February 8th, 2022. She looked them in the eye. What followed afterwards upset the mob deeply.
diagram
SHAHEEN BAGH X HINDU S/HOOTERSShaheen Bagh was a protest site of a love letter to democracy. State-sponsered men of faith* and gun took their shots at disrupting that cradle. To little avail. *got bail within days & joined the BJP (PMO's Party.) Many congratulations to him!
diagram
AFREEN FATIMA X UP GOVERNMENTReprisal by the state on a 22-year-old, Muslim Activist, Afreen Fatima and her family. Their house was demolished by the state & JCB bulldozers. They weren't home. She said she isn't willing to shed a single tear.
shape
DEVIL IS IN THE HEAD OFFICE. ZOOM IN, YOU.
text
shape, arrow
diagram
text
diagram
shape
a black and white image of a computer
a few black rectangular objects
diagram
a red flag with white stars
a red flag with white stars

“pathology of Islamophobia is taking its most lethal form in India where the Modi government is systematically dismantling Indian secular democracy and turning the country into a Hindu ethnocracy”. NAOM CHOMSKY*

Islamophobia is directly proportional to the national hero, so the marginalised cat is fighting the saffron cerebrus. The scene is absurd. The cat’s our champion.

I call them hyper-realistic letterpress paintings. I don't know about you. But like I said I call them hyper-realistic letterpress paintings.

These are ridiculous documents with serious implications. Believe thee, now that even the god* of our liberal land, hath spoken. These are pissed-off women in black, responding to the state-sponsored militia, with terrible pain and might.

To absurd,

with absurd.


IAN GABB, FOR GIVING ME TIME, SO MUCH OF IT, THANK YOU.


MUSKAN KHAN X STATEMOB

  1. https://www.vice.com/en/article/4awqk3/muskan-india-hijab-ban-karnataka-college
  2. https://blogs.soas.ac.uk/soashistoryblog/2022/07/15/the-hijab-ban-in-kanartaka/
  3. https://www.hindustantimes.com/india-news/hijab-ban-order-led-to-17-000-girls-skipping-exams-in-karnataka-advocate-tells-sc-101663256252244.html
  4. https://www.opindia.com/2022/05/burqa-protester-muskan-khan-gone-to-saudi-arabia-family-month-after-getting-support-from-al-qaeda-chief/

SHAHEEN BAGH X HINDU S/HOOTERS

  1. https://thewire.in/communalism/shaheen-bagh-shooting
  2. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shaheen_Bagh_protest
  3. https://www.hindustantimes.com/india-news/shaheen-bagh-shooter-kapil-gujjar-inducted-by-bjp-expelled-within-hours/story-c0Fg6K4akBMzK5RdEwheMJ.html
  4. https://www.opindia.com/2020/02/shaheen-bagh-protests-truth-opindia-ground-report/

AFREEN FATIMA X UP GOVERNMENT

  1. https://maktoobmedia.com/2022/06/18/global-body-condemn-reprisals-against-afreen-fatima-and-her-family/
  2. https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2022/6/13/act-of-vendetta-afreen-fatima-on-her-house-bulldozed-in-india
  3. https://www.telegraphindia.com/india/temple-retail-bar-on-muslims-at-sangh-parivar-outfits-behest/cid/1857306
  4. https://www.opindia*.com/2022/06/islamists-liberals-javed-ahmed-prayagraj-uttar-pradesh-afreen-fatima/


Medium:

LETTERPRESS PRINTS ON SOMERSET & OTHER EXPENSIVE PAPERS

Size:

56 X 76
qr code
text
PRINTED MATTER
text, letter
H for a poem of revolution censored
a white and red sign
Sfor the roaring press freedom ranking
a poster with a red and white design
Gfor resume of our PMO
text
Nfor no data, on migration exodus, on covid deaths, on millions in pmcares fund, etc etc etc etc etc. Kant be botheread.
qr code
Vfor vendetta of the baman hindu vaanar sena.
text
Zfor a world asleep (until someone says something blasphemous about a god)
a screenshot of a computer
Breathing techniques for survival when you read and feel irrational about the world. DEEP INHALE
shape
Breathing techniques for survival when you read and feel irrational about the world againDEEP EXHALE
text
W (unprinted)for our scripted television anthems
D (unprinted)
D (unprinted)for a gorge-ous interview by the indomitable Karan Thapar
graphics, graphic design, red
Y (unprinted)for why indeed.

Alphabetical catalogue of Indian Deadmocracy, itemised on the basis of verbose, visual & rioting Brahmanical bhakt* culture of the Indian Politics and pogroms by our head in chef.

WIP

Medium:

SCREENPRRINT ON PAPER

Size:

A3
text
I Love your ADHD, I'll marry you.

"sisyphus must

imagine wee happy

but he is not

hee heeeh might be

you don’t no

how do you no

i don’t no

it dawned know"


Phone calls from home distracting one from phone calls to the suicide helplines.

Medium:

OIL PAINT ON CANVAS

Size:

3 X 4 M
text
Launch Project
INTERROGATION HUA HAI
text, letter
Launch Project

Baby seals were the unrecognised revolutionaries. They were tired and helpless. The political world will do that to the fluff hearted. They do have a few things to say, so Schrödinger's cat is playing with notions of Pascal's wager. Serious & potent. Just as our million conferences.

(soon to become flyers)


In collaboration with Vinayak Vyas

Medium:

Pen and cursor on paper and pdf respectively
text
The plate
text
yet to be etched
qr code
living delayed, so making delayed

My diary was my talisman to displacement.

I lost the diary.

That diary guided me in the time of lost/loss.

Now that's displaced.

So this is an etching about blurred all that.


Medium:

ETCHING

Size:

40 x 50 cm
text, letter
Launch Project
Library
a drawing of a snake
a drawing of a bird
a drawing of a tree
a drawing of a hand
a drawing of a tree
drawing of trees
drawing of a forest
O

Good times of the dark of the ignorance and non-political pursuits of beauty and lettering and literature and poetry, all-encompassing.

Medium:

Ink on paper

Size:

A4