Hari Rajaledchumy

Hari Rajaledchumy proposed to study the figure of the stranger/foreigner within current investments of neighbourliness and communality, but during his time at OSE this concern transformed into a consideration of inclusionary regimes operating within contemporary art and its educational turn. Hari began studying his own positionality, practice and conduct within school, and within the larger context of access to art education. This resulted in a new series of works – an installation accompanied by a short artist text, paintings and collages – that address the accelerated anxieties of the incorporated late-arrivant, the ‘outsider’, the dilettante, and of the art-historical aporia they bring into organisations of collaboration, participation and community.