Rajesh Kargutkar is a Swiss-based Indian artist whose practice investigates the socio-spatial dynamics of urban density. Grounded in his upbringing within Mumbai’s historic chawls, colonial-era tenements defined by single-room kholis and shared corridors, his oil on canvas works examine the philosophy of jugaad, or creative improvisation under structural scarcity.Kargutkar’s intricate, multi-perspective compositions merge archival photography with personal memory, blurring documentary reality and psychological interiority. Rather than framing confinement as limitation, his canvases serve as empathetic archives of everyday agency, humor, and collective vitality. By capturing the spatial politics of marginalised spaces, his paintings offer a profound global discourse on migration, belonging, and the universal right to existence.

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