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UN/SAFE
Prateek Vijan’s second exhibition at Gallery Khoshbakht extends his engagement with histories of colonial looting, their entanglement with the Western museum, and British anti-restitution laws. UN/SAFE features a series of discarded vault doors—objects commonly used to secure precious private property—which serve as carriers for Vijan’s imprinted photographic notes.
In the first room, a single fragmented image of a book collection centered on crime stretches across gleaming metal surfaces. Within Vijan’s critical yet poetic examination of legal constructs, this juxtaposition gestures toward the complex relationships between wealth, power, and knowledge production, as well as issues around legality, accountability, and crime.
In the second room, fleeting images of locking mechanisms—essential components of the vaults— reappear on the slim metal doors as targets to be dismantled. They weave together Vijan’s research into institutional security infrastructures, lock-picking…
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UN/SAFE
Prateek Vijan’s second exhibition at Gallery Khoshbakht extends his engagement with histories of colonial looting, their entanglement with the Western museum, and British anti-restitution laws. UN/SAFE features a series of discarded vault doors—objects commonly used to secure precious private property—which serve as carriers for Vijan’s imprinted photographic notes.
In the first room, a single fragmented image of a book collection centered on crime stretches across gleaming metal surfaces. Within Vijan’s critical yet poetic examination of legal constructs, this juxtaposition gestures toward the complex relationships between wealth, power, and knowledge production, as well as issues around legality, accountability, and crime.
In the second room, fleeting images of locking mechanisms—essential components of the vaults— reappear on the slim metal doors as targets to be dismantled. They weave together Vijan’s research into institutional security infrastructures, lock-picking…
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