Ravi Agarwal’s works revolve around industrialized nature, labor, ecology and consumption.

In his two-channel video Oil is not Water (2008) Agarwal washes his hands in petrol while on the other screen petrol is mixed with water, contaminating its purity and clearness, rejecting the possibility to unify.

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”Our basic ecological condition has been forgotten. Economy has replaced ecology as the central proposition even though the roots of all resources lie in nature. Life giving water is free, misused and wasted even as oil prices shoot through the roof. Life is less important than money. The blood is on our hands, even as we, like Lady Macbeth, attempt to ‘wash’ ourselves of our violence.” Ravi Agarwal