Birender Kumar Yadav is a multi-disciplinary artist who experiments with various media including painting, sculpture, photography, installation, etching, found and man-made objects, as well as live documentary. Influenced by his early experiences as the son of a blacksmith working in a coal mine, Yadav’s work often draws attention to issues of class hierarchies. Using gunpowder extracted from matchsticks as his primary medium, Yadav explores the complexities of class and identity while performing a commentary on power structures extant in contemporary socio-political structures. Yadav's work further reflects on the complexity of language, labor, and migration as conceptual constructs in the personal stories that he has inhabited and encountered.