Kapil Jangid

Kapil Jangid is an artist based between Baroda and New Delhi who has a deep interest in the social, architectural and environmental landscapes of urban and rural India. Kapil’s work is conceptualized based on his responses to architectural imagery and urbanisation of cities. Coming from a family that migrated from Rajasthan to Gujarat in search of better opportunities, his family settled in Bajwa, a small village on the outskirts of Vadodara where Kapil was born and raised. Growing up in an area which was surrounded by three enormous industrial units of oil corporations, the stark contrast between the precise construction and sterile planning of industrial townships and the informal and unplanned mushrooming of structures in Bajwa led Kapil to study the human conditions and socio-political realities of those who inhabit these architectures. Working primarily with found materials, objects, concrete, collages, photographs, and drawings, the artist builds works that reference his father’s occupational background as a carpenter. The composition of the objects that he creates act as a collection of small structures that pose a puzzle for him to navigate and understand social stratification.