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The Unsettling of Ordinary
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Mūḷ Māthī // from the roots: A Keen Postscript
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Echoes
APRE Art House, Mumbai 2022
An echo is a soundwave that is reflected off a distant surface resonating between different places and times; three artists with differing outlooks and generational affiliations, each setting their distinct approaches to language and individual sensibilities come in dialogue and opposition.
From their personal experience everyday instances of life and encounters all three artists’ works dwell deeper into the dense articulations and permeability of their offerings. Their visuals display unpredictable and unsettling expressions, imaginative but familiar landscapes and realistic impressions – inviting us to review the inner world and impressions of culture and nature of the present times. This curatorial re-examines the concept of landscape to explore how our lives form a landscape in differing individual contexts and with changing perspectives of individuals and society in relation to our orientation or beliefs.
It asks us to contemplate if life is part of a landscape or does life always appear landscape-like and to rethink the relationship between humans, nature and our lives alongside the natural world.
Featured works by: Pallav Chander, Dhiraj Pednekar, Pavan Kavitkar
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Early '00 onwards: Video Art in India
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A Moving House or a Landscape
Exhibition review of works by Shreya Pate at Galerie Mirchandani + Steinruecke, Mumbai: “A Moving House or a Landscape”, TAKE on Art. Books, Volume 1, Issue 27, April, 2022
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In the Blink of an Eye
A brief moment exists between the state of wakefulness and sleep, and also before waking up of untethered, blurred, tumbling thoughts capable to us humans. These states are scientifically defined as hypnagogic - a state immediately before falling asleep, and hypnopompic - a state leading to consciousness or being awake. The two states are different in character; the former slips us through an imaginary, fantasised and unconscious moment before drifting into sleep. It is a non-governed state of an individual shutting the brain, dissolving mental filters and slowly dismantling the concepts of the world. All of our models, norms and ideas of a constrained world pull apart its meaning in the slightest of dizzy recalling. The latter state
brings us closer to the reality. It is a state of steadily reaching consciousness when we begin to realise the self, things and people, place and the surroundings.
Time as a concept in our understanding, is continuous and sequential from second to minutes, morning to evening, day to months, and youth to aged. On the other hand, the transitions seem short-lived in an individual’s ever-shifting thoughts, between collapse and rise, or the apprehensions of prolonged hardships, even the crumbling state of affairs around. Comparatively, the state of alertness is subjective to human recollection. How do we make
sense of reality, then? Does the past mean anything to us in relation to thinking of the future – while in the present? In the Blink of an Eye considers the states of transcending into sleep and being awake as a metaphor to reflect on time as extended, indefinite and an inconsecutive happening, event, and passage. Each artist featured in this exhibition explores the human state of being in the process of transition between reality and the unfamiliar, through their artistic
practice and approaches.
Featured works by:
Bhisaji Gadekar(Goa), Chandan Bez Baruah(Guwahati), Jyothi Basu (Vadodara), Kundan Mondal(Vadodara), Midhun Gopi(Kerala),Prajakta Palav Aher(Mumbai), Rachana Nagarkar(Mumbai), Saju Kunhan(Mumbai), Sneh Mehra(Vadodara), Shruti Mahajan(Hyderabad)
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Pieces of bygone
a search for granulate it shreds down,
chips of stone seem misplaced by sculptor
though hard and tough:
may be it is unfinished,
may be have lost to be part of some battle.
it might still be trying to stand,
a search for sculptor’s hand, in the granulate it has shred down.
chopped, off-posture, limbs struck,
a search for shards minced and flown.
masses of blow,
might still be trying to hold,
monumentality -
against spectators and accompanied stoneware.
in-between bygone years,
life realises weathered stones and makers absence: remains of a slashed strokes,
and a smiling face.
no choice but broken shards,
intent to finish colossus presence;
to humans pride of making and disrupting,
peace and disorder but two sides of a similar creature.
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Sea
Sea, a body of water
as experience to encompass darkness
gulping amounts of things and many lives,
it is vast and far reaching;
heavier, riveting a story for itself,
And many more for futures of its people.
Sea but part of ocean,
water listening to its own waves:
an invincible part of larger mansion.
Sea that it is, living empty absorbing its salty attire,
Sea that it is, built with amount of pain,
Forced plastic with flower bed of ritual after worship.
Sea reacts and converses to moon
In tides receding and growing wild
Stories of loss and submerged ruin
it still is holding quality of a healer.
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