Ranjit Hoskote

Ranjit Hoskote has been acclaimed as a seminal contributor to Indian art criticism and curatorial practice, and is a leading Indian poet. He is the author of more than 30 books, including Vanishing Acts: New & Selected Poems 1985-2005 (Penguin 2006), Central Time (Penguin/ Viking 2014), Jonahwhale (Penguin/ Hamish Hamilton 2018; by Arc in the UK as The Atlas of Lost Beliefs 2020), and Hunchprose (Penguin/ Hamish Hamilton 2021). He curated India’s first-ever national pavilion at the Venice Biennale (2011). He co-curated the 7th Gwangju Biennale with Okwui Enwezor and Hyunjin Kim (2008). With Rahul Mehrotra and Kaiwan Mehta, he co-curated the exhibition-conference platform, The State of Architecture: Practices and Processes in India (National Gallery of Modern Art, Bombay, 2016). Sarosh is interested in an expansive notion of architectural agency, one that synthesizes architecture's formal and tectonic capacities with questions of socio-ecological pertinence. His current design research projects consider agencies across various scales and geographies with ongoing investigations into the homologies between synanthropic, ecology, markets, urban informality and food.