MATERIAL EYE

I rarely draw what I see – I draw what I feel in my body.
-Barbara Hepworth, 1966

Making a separation between our own lives, and how we interact with the world and with ‘Art’ in particular is not easy. Art objects embody ideas and experiences just as it occurs in our body; the medium where everything occurs. The interpretation depends on how it is sensed by each individual. Different layers and filters produced in our socio-cultural context is treated as material, also sound, language, hard or soft material, experiences, meanings are treated and interpreted as material with the knowledge that it shifts and changes in time. The material indicator provides the most crucial feature of the art’s function and its meaning. Numerous internal and external factors like history; education, circumstances, location, context and mood determine how both the artist and the viewer encounter the work of art.

Art has always been a link between imagination and reality, in the similar way in the current discourse, materiality in art, forms a nexus to how arts material qualities are sensed, interpreted and understood. Throughout history, artists have given expression to ideas by making art and for this they looked at ordinary materials and transformed them to into forms, and expressed them into thoughts and feelings, tangible and intangible, present or futuristic. In the recent times, materiality is become very important in the contemporary art practice. What material the artists choose and why they choose is always a reason to get closer to works of art. It is known to be a channel to understand what artists are thinking, it helps to understand what is the process of investigation for the artist to look at things, nature of things, how they reframe, juxtapose, anesthetize and create meanings, both for themselves and how it will be received by the viewer. This exhibition seeks to deepen and expand this notion of mediums and materiality in contemporary art practice. The show aims to give that aesthetic experience of transformed material and materiality with embodied thoughts and feelings of the artists’.