Etched Memory
April 21, 2020 to May 22, 2020
White Memories 01Ravikumar Kashi
Cast Cotton Rag Pulp
2018
White Memories 02Ravikumar Kashi
Cast Cotton Rag Pulp
2018
White Memories 03Ravikumar Kashi
Cast Cotton Rag Pulp
2018
White Memories 04Ravikumar Kashi
Cast Cotton Rag Pulp
2018
White Memories 06Ravikumar Kashi
Cast Cotton Rag Pulp
2018
White Memories 08Ravikumar Kashi
Cast Cotton Rag Pulp
2018
White Memories 09Ravikumar Kashi
Cast Cotton Rag Pulp
2019
White Memories 10Ravikumar Kashi
Cast Cotton Rag Pulp
2019
White Memories 11Ravikumar Kashi
Cast Cotton Rag Pulp
2019
White Memories 12Ravikumar Kashi
Cast Cotton Rag Pulp
2018
White Memories 13Ravikumar Kashi
Cast Cotton Rag Pulp
2018
White Memories 14Ravikumar Kashi
Cast Cotton Rag Pulp
2018
White Memories 17Ravikumar Kashi
Cast Cotton Rag Pulp
2018
White Memories 19Ravikumar Kashi
Cast Cotton Rag Pulp
2018
White Memories 20Ravikumar Kashi
Cast Cotton Rag Pulp
2019
White Memories 21Ravikumar Kashi
Cast Cotton Rag Pulp
2019
White Memories 22Ravikumar Kashi
Cast Cotton Rag Pulp
2019
White Memories 23Ravikumar Kashi
Cast Cotton Rag Pulp
2018
White Memories 24Ravikumar Kashi
Cast Cotton Rag Pulp
2018
White Memories 25Ravikumar Kashi
Cast Cotton Rag Pulp
2018
White Memories 26Ravikumar Kashi
Cast Cotton Rag Pulp
2018
White Memories 27Ravikumar Kashi
Cast Cotton Rag Pulp
2018
White Memories 28Ravikumar Kashi
Cast Cotton Rag Pulp
2018
#Etched Memory Ravikumar Kashi’s works explore various aspects of objects that are used in our daily lives. But each time he has touched upon a different dimension of the object. Over the years, he has looked at the role objects play, their revelatory nature, the kind of meaning they bring to our life and examined how they shape our desires and destiny, satisfy and frustrate us.
The ‘White Memory’ set of works looks at the life cycle of an object. It also invokes ways in which they become repositories of memory, nostalgia, intangible values and narratives. As time passes objects lose their relevance and become relics. But their tactile memory remains in our mind. Some objects enter our collective memory with their presence in museums. The ‘White Memory’ works convey a parallel to those experiences by evoking tactile memories. The memories of objects traced here are faint but delicate; one has to look at them closely to acknowledge their presence in a liminal space which straddles past and present.
The process of creating them is also a similar fusion of many disciplines. The initial drawing is carved on a slab of plaster of plaster (POP) like a wood-cut but the impression from the slab is extracted like an etching process. Upon the carved slab, a freshly formed handmade sheet of paper made from cotton rag is laid and firmly pressed so that the pulp enters all the carved recesses. Once the sheet dries it is gently removed from the slab and burnished. Metaphorically the process also mimics the memory of the object etched in our minds.
Ravikumar Kashi had his art education from College of Fine Arts, Bangalore and Faculty of Fine Arts, M S University of Baroda. He was awarded Charles Wallace grant to study paper making under J Parry at the Paper-making Resource at Glasgow School of Art, UK in 2001 and learnt Hanji- traditional handmade paper making at a residency with masters Jang Yong Hoon & Seong Woo at Jang Ji Bang, South Korea with fund support by INKO centre, Chennai.
Ravi has widely exhibited his multimedia works – paintings, photographs and paper based works and sculptures in India and abroad.
He writes on art in bilingual languages English and Kannada. He has engaged in teaching and imparting knowledge to students at various art, design and alternate teaching platforms.
(Text by Ravikumar Kashi)