In this group exhibition Gallery BMB is proud to invite five artists from GALLERYSKE, Bangalore, to exhibit together in Mumbai. The works, most of which have been created especially for this show, which is a celebration of a confreres program.
Artists
Avinash Veeraraghavan The artist writes: ‘A repetition of a single object, image or action over creates a pattern. Patterns repeated over and over again in combinations one with the other create an image. This rule of construction constitutes the structure of all the works shown here, where layers of patterns are overlaid one on top of the other to create images and stories. The stories I tell are of decay and dead spirits, archeology and memory, purity and it actual constituents in horror, sex and castration.’
The work explores Navin Thomas’s interest in the travels and after-life of electronic gadgets, salvaged electronic junk, mostly discarded transistors and smaller objects, with a possible, audio capacity. The object in the video was found by the artist in the Chinese toy market in Chandini Chowk. The dismembered toy buoyantly oscillates from side to side while singing an Iranian song marking the object by three cultures in its short life.
Sakshi Gupta’s work looks at contradictions within which we live. In an attempt to fuse real with potential, lasting with ephemeral, solitude with chaos her work searches for ways to find an intellectual and emotional equilibrium. Working primarily with industrial scrap, her work is transformative and through transition explores the intrinsic artistry in atrophy.
Embodying a spirit of playful non-knowledge, unlearning, and productive confusion; the two works she presents here are dedicated to the inquisitive mind and to the pleasures of finding our way in the dark.
Srinivasa Prasad’s work draws a great deal from his background in regional theatre as a prop maker and performer. In his work there exists the drama and compulsion of ritual and a grandiose scale imprinted by the pure physicality of the artist’s involvement. Sourcing material from his immediate environments, he creates works poised between the spectacular and the introspective. Around his home in rural Karnataka, the artist watches the ease with which birds migrate to fit the dictates of the season. In his work Nest, he explores the possibility of return, of reversing the cycles of the year. The work consists of two photographs, the first shows an empty tree which as winter has come, has lost its leaves, and the second through the artist’s intervention, the leaves are collected form a large nest nestled in the branches of the tree.
Zakkir Hussain The viewer can see a row of marching armies from across the panels of the triptych on view in this exhibition. The marching signifies the continuing processes of history, especially the rhythmic movement of the army. The artist explains: ‘The armies I depict are not conventional armies, but rather they are those that come from the hegemonic moral world, the ones that fight to keep up the vigilance against love, resistance, the right to speak or seek to normalize the citations of the everyday. In that sense, discipline and the punishment are the main concern of the work - the punishment the figures receive are more prominent than the disciplined march or movement of the armies in this work. Normally, the sensibility of prevailing conditions focus and enlarge the disciplined aspects of the system, and negates the rights of the punished forms. My attempt is to reverse this. I have given the full focus on the punished form in order to give a voice for to speak for the punished bodies which has been mutilated repeatedly in the cultural arena of the dominant.
