HARSIMRAN JUNEJA | MOO POINT

Pulp Society is very excited to present Harsimran Juneja’'s first solo exhibition in India, Moo Point. The exhibition is on view at B-247, Okhla Phase 1 in New Delhi from 29 October through 10 December, 2022.

Through this body of work, Juneja critiques, comments, sullens, and satires over life, loss, society, self, and the surrounding; probing the viewers to also question their ideas about the reality we cohabit. 

Born in 1995, Harsimran Juneja is a self-taught artist who reflects upon living life within a society of contrasts, contradictions and conflicts through his practice. With personal experiences at the core of his works, he employs drawing, painting and text in his artistic pursuits to portray social observations and narratives that can be interpreted plurally.

“My works follow a visual language that is influenced by Neo-expressionism and primitivism, aiming to exist in the spaces between figurative and abstraction or narrative and abstraction. The texts in my works are akin to graffiti on the streets, they tag my paintings and also allow me to re-contextualise my visual subjects. Lately, my ideas have taken precedence over my visual outcomes, leading me to an exploration of conceptual art practice that also employs the use of found objects, combines, video and audio. A crucial aspect of being able to resolve conflict is the practice of looping - an exercise that enables better listening in a conversation to understand one's reasons better. In a larger context, I wonder if my works can be synonymous to looping, enabling audiences to inch closer towards resolution for their own conflicts.” - HCJ

Harsimran pursued his Master’s in Design Management and Cultures from the University of the Arts London to explore his passion as an educator in Art and Design. Having gained clarity after his time in London, Harsimran formalized his practice in painting after returning to India in late 2019. Juneja  has shown his work at Edgeland Modern, UK; 105arts, India; Apparao Galleries, India; Jonathan Ferrara Gallery, USA; ArtBuzz Studios, India; and virtually with terrain.art; Visionary Art Collective, USA; The Holy Art, UK; Shrine, New York, USA; Keshav Art Foundation, India; Merakii Art House, India. 

His practice has been lauded by the press, and he has been featured in homegrown.in, ‘Harsimran Juneja’s Art Explores The Inner Conflict Of The Human Experience’, 2022; Architectural Digest India, Jan - Feb 2022 Edition, p56; Artdemic Open Call, Gujral Foundation, 2021; ArtConnect Magazine: Artists to Watch, July, 2021; Art Hole: 14, Magazine, 2021; Boomer Magazine, The New Artist edition (p 131), Boomer Gallery, London, 2021; Contrarium Magazine, Rage | Serenity Issue II, 2021; The Hindu, 'Harsimran challenges notions of social acceptance', 2021; and he has been awarded the Finalist Award, Open II, Art Show International, 2021. The artist lives, and works in Mumbai / Ahmedabad.