Ali Akbar Mehta

Ali Akbar Mehta (b.1983, Mumbai) is a Transmedia artist, curator, and researcher. Through a research-based practice, he creates immersive cyber archives that map narratives of history, memory, and identity, through multifocal lenses of violence, conflict, and trauma. Such archival mappings – like drawings, paintings, new media works, net-based projects, poems, essays, and theoretical texts, as well as performances both of bodies and networks – are rooted in data feminist posthumanist critical theories of making visible hegemonic power relations and silenced historical materialism. His ongoing doctoral research, tentatively titled Practicing Online Performativity: Constructing Politically Conscious Archives for the Future, is interested in exploring the performative relations between online archives and their users through mediated interventions of Second Order Cybernetics, to create knowledge systems that outline a vibrant new political public sphere.


His work as performances, installations and talks have been exhibited in galleries and alternative spaces in Mumbai, New Delhi, Pune, Helsinki, Tampere, Pori, Venice, Nova Gorica, Vienna, Turku, and Jyväskylä. Several of his projects, such as 256 Million Colours of Violence, Outsiders at Work, Ballad of the Lost Utopian Meadow and Central Park Archives, exist as permanent ongoing online projects.


He is a co-founder of the Museum of Impossible Forms, an anti-racist queer feminist project and was its Co-Artistic Director from 2018 to 2020. He currently serves on the board of TKOK ry (2021-) and Kiila ry (2019- chairperson 2021-); is a research member of the Cluster of Critical Artistic Research (CCARE) and is pursuing his Doctoral Research in the Contemporary Art Department at Aalto University, Helsinki. He holds a BFA in Drawing & Painting from the Sir J.J. School of Art, Mumbai, and an MA in Visual Culture, Curating, and Contemporary Art from Aalto University, Helsinki.

 

 

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Fog Catcher
INR 31,500
Ali Akbar Mehta
24in x 36in | 1 of 7
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Hologram Spread
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24in x 36in | 1 of 7
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Hypnotic Score
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24in x 36in | 1 of 7
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Popular Delusions
INR 31,500
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24in x 36in | 1 of 7
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Everybody is a Jester: 05
INR 37,500
Ali Akbar Mehta
24in x 18in | 1 of 5
INR 37,500
Harlequin Series: All that was solid is Liquid Again
INR 100,000
Ali Akbar Mehta
90in x 60in | 1 of 5
INR 100,000
Harlequin Series: Caught Somewhere in Time
INR 69,500
Ali Akbar Mehta
72in x 60in | 1 of 5
INR 69,500
Quantum Sunrise
INR 31,500
Ali Akbar Mehta
24in x 36in | 1 of 7
INR 31,500
Harlequin Series: To Glory in self, Like Some Kind of New Monster
INR 69,500
Ali Akbar Mehta
72in x 60in | 1 of 5
INR 69,500
Aqua Glaze
INR 50,500
Ali Akbar Mehta
24in x 36in | 1 of 7
INR 50,500
Unframed Sun
INR 31,500
Ali Akbar Mehta
24in x 36in | 1 of 7
INR 31,500