Vijay Masharani
Selected Videos

From September 11 to October 31, 2026
Opening on September 11 at 5 pm

This selection of short films and video loops by Vijay Masharani sequences together a glossary of images that are both disparate and dense in meaning. These include California’s 2019 forest fires, a family Zoom tutorial on radiation masks, an Alberto Giacometti sculpture, Google headquarters, YouTuber Arab Andy, and the U.S. Army Signal Corps crest. Out of this string of signifiers emerges an ambience ornamented by the visual annotations of technocracy, colonial regimes, racial violence, and violence against the ill. The artist’s varied applications of phone cameras, partially stitched 360 video, pencil drawing, and 3D animation are indifferent to technological spectacle and high-production values. More gestural in their approach, the works outline the question: what is worth our limited amount of time?

“Give me that fucking content, Universe,” the artist repeats. References to prayer appear in different forms throughout but this is a different kind of incantation. Compulsive, consumptive, survivalist. It implores content in the contemporary sense: not as knowable information, but as a marketable infinity of vacuous information. We look out in awe, as though encrypted within the involuted web of links was a yet unheralded truth.

The artist slows such excess, reconfiguring it into long takes and ultra-short loops that stabilize into forever video objects. Similarly, readability overrides randomness when the artist documents himself visiting neighbourhoods and subway stations. These places give embodied specificity to capitalist projects like property, privatization, gentrification, and the uneven distribution of visibility and value. Not to be confused with a meandering dérive, his physical or representational movement is more acute than estranged. 

Masharani’s critical practice of looking concentrates so sharply that it pierces the image, revealing what might lie behind. Apparitions, glows, and portals seem to expose either the image’s afterlife or the vestiges of its past—underlying rubrics and geometries, categories that allocate power. Perhaps they are simultaneous abstractions of the seen and unseen, what is understood and what is beyond. 

Vijay Masharani is an artist and writer. He received his MA in Race, Ethnicity, and Postcolonial Studies from University College London and attended the Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture. He had his first institutional solo exhibition, Big Casino, at Kunsthalle Zürich in early 2025, and recently showed work in Greater New York 2026 at MoMA PS1. He has published writing in Parapraxis, e-flux, BOMB, Momus, and elsewhere. He is represented by Clima, Milan.