Memory, Roots & Desires

A Group Show

#Pushpamala N | Ravikumar Kashi | Ravinder Reddy | Riyas Komu | Shanthamani M | Vivek Vilasini

Apparitions of Time

Six artists, six visions - all converging upon our world and times, our past and present. It is a virtual congregation of oneiric, mythic and historical presences - conjured, invoked, provoked and called upon to witness, interrogate, contemplate and converse.

In an age of flux and flows, uncertainties and turbulences, art turns into assertive and introspective acts of capture, assemblage, crossover and juxtapositions: icons, figures, ideas and forms transmigrate, morph and coalesce. These journeys through hi/stories of the nation, people and art, conjure images that mix temporalities, generations and mediums, probing, shifting and mixing positions of contemplation, points of action, junctures of conversation. Deeply rooted in the collective unconscious, they are sometimes explicit, direct and belligerent, other times, subtle, liminal and subterranean. These figurations easily move between the physical and the material, concrete and abstract, memory and fact, contemplation and action. The apparition of political icons merge, the artist transmigrates through iconic images from the history of art, son enters into pensive conversations with his father, bodies flaunt striking poses, the mythic figures in splendorous attire congregate at the corridors. Lithographic divinities come to life, materials speak in abstract terms, history smiles and reminds, bodies celebrate the spirit of life and freedom. Time becomes malleable and soluble, iterations spin strange spirals of being, opening up new tangents of imagination, lives and dreams to be...

Dr. C. S. Venkiteswaran,

Film Historian & Art Critic 2022