Artists generally tend to be harmless rebels. But some of them have a cocky way of painting the society and system that is at once enraging and gratifying. Mumbai-based poet and artist Sanjeev Khandekar’s newest exhibitions ‘Kegel Exercise-Ashwini Mudra’ and ‘Acquire, Merge or Collaborate’ shock the viewer into looking beneath the silky skin of modern corporate culture.

Khandekar’s paintings, marble inlay works and installations portray the corporate world as an insidious force that controls almost every aspect of human existence and profits from it. “It is an attempt to show how much corporate culture has invaded our lives,” says Khandekar, who has worked with Enron Corporation and, until a year ago, for Reliance Power. “No one can escape it.”

Borrowing the expression from the article ‘Finance And The Fourth Dimension’ by Robin Blackburn in the New Left Review, he says,“The individual today is just a two-legged cost and profit centre. The whole idea of financialisation permeates everyday life and everything is, in some way, related to the market.’’