Visual Echoes

#Visual Echoes

Visual Echoes, an online exhibition of print-makers brings forth reflections of the artistic process from ideation to image which echoes the transformation from mind to actual visual forms. All the artists represented here with their artistic idioms continue to engage in socio-cultural and ecological aspects within their realm. Each artists’ employ different techniques of printmaking practice and their works with the elements of graphic representation of their visual thoughts which echo in their minds and eventually take the shape of artwork. As artists they often engage in subjects that shape their ideas, observations and concerns from their environment and experiences.

Laxma Goud’s draws source from his childhood memories of growing up in rural and tribal environs that often bring forth the elements of nature, man and woman relationships, animals and so forth and sometimes highlighting the aspects of sexuality and fertility.

For Kavita Nayar, it is her constant and spontaneous engagement with the natural surroundings that brings out semi-abstract forms of trees, seeds and also the human emotions in her works. The Seeds of Love is all about Motherhood, its core nature of life through conception, nurturing and growth becomes part of the creative process.

Kavita Shah works primarily on the ecological issues we face today which are against the natural environment. She uses the elements from nature such as flora and fauna, man-made objects and juxtaposes them against one another that reflect the conflicts of ecological imbalance.

In Bhaskar’s work, the transitions in urban landscape are due to constant struggle between ecology and modernization signified by prevalent machines overpowering man-power. The heavy backhoes and earth excavators in the urban construction appear as ‘extra-terrestrial bodies’ or even as unearthed prehistoric fossils become as metaphorical conjunctions of both past and present social setup.

For Sonal Varshneya, in her Ready to red carpet series, the toe-ringed feet epitomize the status of being a married woman and symbolizes socio-cultural ideas of femininity, beauty, prosperity and health benefits to manage menstrual pain.