UBIK (b. 1985, India)
UBIK is an Indian artist living and working in Dubai, UAE.
His work experiments with a variety of mediums. He does not position his work in a specific genre. The core of UBIK's work deals with the relative ideology of chaos. It renders the absurdity of the world order and comments on the machinated playgrounds of human cliches, in a sarcastic and realistic way.
UBIK crafts his work to be conceptual. Not in the form of technicality but rather its reactionary possibilities. The process of the work is to urge and provoke the viewer to self-reflect. The viewer is not an isolated agent, but rather his/er reaction is an integral part to the artistic production.
Currently, UBIK is heavily influenced by film, beatnik and gonzo literature, music, street art, anarchism and existentialist thought. His older works include drawings and paintings while his recent work has moved into a more conceptual direction, with a strong focus on text.
UBIK also works in graphic design and publishing.
Text by Ahmed/ Ahmad Makia
Contact::
E. vivek.blech@gmail.com
T. +971 50 7074917
Press:
Dazed Digital
Satellite Voices
Mashallahnews
Art in the city
CNN
Upcoming:
TEXT ME, Lawrie Shabibi, Dubai [group show]
A Most Precarious Relationship, Maraya Art Centre, Sharjah [group show]
With A Little Help From My Friends, The Pavilion Downtown, Dubai [project]
Solo Exhibitions:
2012
Dissident, Galería Sabrina Amrani, Madrid
2011
Satellite Broadcast 001: Tahrir Sq. [project], Satellite, Dubai
Relate to the Matter As I Drop the Bomb, Traffic, Dubai
2010
Dasein, Zayed University, Dubai
Here's Something to Violate While You're At It, shelter, Dubai
2009
iamwhatiam, the jamjar, Dubai
Group Exhibitions:
2012
Art Dubai 2012 [projects]
The Samawi Collection II, Ayyam Gallery, Dubai
THE STATE: Domination, Hegemony and The Panopticon, Traffic, Dubai
2011
THE STATE: The Coming Insurrection, Vol. 1, Traffic, Dubai
THE STATE: SOCIAL / ANTISOCIAL?, Traffic and The Third Line, Dubai
"West End?" , Museum on Seam , Jerusalem, Israel
Art Dubai 2011, Traffic booth, Dubai
2010
Ralph Lauren Artstar, Phillips de Pury, London
FAKiE: A Skateboard Dexhibition, shelter, Dubai
2009
My Name is Robot, thejamjar, Dubai
2008
Cliche in a Box, Traffic, Dubai
Copyright UBIK
UBIK is an Indian artist living and working in Dubai, UAE.
His work experiments with a variety of mediums. He does not position his work in a specific genre. The core of UBIK's work deals with the relative ideology of chaos. It renders the absurdity of the world order and comments on the machinated playgrounds of human cliches, in a sarcastic and realistic way.
UBIK crafts his work to be conceptual. Not in the form of technicality but rather its reactionary possibilities. The process of the work is to urge and provoke the viewer to self-reflect. The viewer is not an isolated agent, but rather his/er reaction is an integral part to the artistic production.
Currently, UBIK is heavily influenced by film, beatnik and gonzo literature, music, street art, anarchism and existentialist thought. His older works include drawings and paintings while his recent work has moved into a more conceptual direction, with a strong focus on text.
UBIK also works in graphic design and publishing.
Text by Ahmed/ Ahmad Makia
Contact::
E. vivek.blech@gmail.com
T. +971 50 7074917
Press:
Dazed Digital
Satellite Voices
Mashallahnews
Art in the city
CNN
Upcoming:
TEXT ME, Lawrie Shabibi, Dubai [group show]
A Most Precarious Relationship, Maraya Art Centre, Sharjah [group show]
With A Little Help From My Friends, The Pavilion Downtown, Dubai [project]
Solo Exhibitions:
2012
Dissident, Galería Sabrina Amrani, Madrid
2011
Satellite Broadcast 001: Tahrir Sq. [project], Satellite, Dubai
Relate to the Matter As I Drop the Bomb, Traffic, Dubai
2010
Dasein, Zayed University, Dubai
Here's Something to Violate While You're At It, shelter, Dubai
2009
iamwhatiam, the jamjar, Dubai
Group Exhibitions:
2012
Art Dubai 2012 [projects]
The Samawi Collection II, Ayyam Gallery, Dubai
THE STATE: Domination, Hegemony and The Panopticon, Traffic, Dubai
2011
THE STATE: The Coming Insurrection, Vol. 1, Traffic, Dubai
THE STATE: SOCIAL / ANTISOCIAL?, Traffic and The Third Line, Dubai
"West End?" , Museum on Seam , Jerusalem, Israel
Art Dubai 2011, Traffic booth, Dubai
2010
Ralph Lauren Artstar, Phillips de Pury, London
FAKiE: A Skateboard Dexhibition, shelter, Dubai
2009
My Name is Robot, thejamjar, Dubai
2008
Cliche in a Box, Traffic, Dubai
Copyright UBIK
