Jitish Kallat’s debut solo exhibition at Sperone Westwater opens in New York

Following his critically acclaimed mid-career survey exhibition, at the National Gallery of Modern Art (New Delhi) and his one-person exhibition titled Covering Letter at the Philadelphia Museum of Art in 2017, Jitish Kallat’s debut solo exhibition at Sperone Westwater can be described as a culmination of several strands of inquiry developed over the last few years. Titled Decimal Point, the exhibition delves into ­ideas of time, sustenance, sleep, vision and perception along with a compelling interplay of scales and proximities, and evocations of the celestial and the cosmological; preoccupations that have recurred across his wide-ranging work. At the center of the exhibition is a large suite of photographic works titled Sightings that appear like telescopic snapshots of distant galaxies or faraway supernova explosions in an early universe. It is only on closer viewing that one recognizes each lenticular photo as a do