Figments: Discarded/Desired16-18 AUGUST 2018
Interaction with the immediate environment often acts as an initial boost for the manifestation of creative energies, providing spaces and possibilities for nurturing artistic practices. Various strands of ideas emerge as an outcome of these conversations which are transferred onto the ideation process from where they further filtered. The project focusses on tapping on the initial encounter with the environment in and around the gallery space and the work with the very first spontaneous response experienced by an artist.
During this project the invited artist expanded their existing vocabulary of material/s and concepts through various critical thinking activities. It was riveting to see how different set of ideas were brought together on to one table from where they embarked on o their own journeys. Facilitating an opportunity to reflect and explore the nitty gritties of artistic process, the project further aided in enriching the existing practices and thus moved beyond its defined chronological framework.
Muskaan Singh
पड़ी रेखा
When I look back at my concerns now, I sense a transition where there is a change in rural and urban places. Lately, I have come across some psychological and sociological terms which define the feelings I am going through the situation. During a displacement, I carry a baggage full of the cultural values of the place I originally belong to where I have been born and brought up. So, my concern is, how do I react when I encounter different places and cultures. How do I react to color? How do I react to the landscape? How do I react to culture, society, etc.? As my culture is an essential part of me, it responds accordingly to my surroundings, I am interested to see how this physical shift of space will affect my psyche. Here my work deals the idea of displacement, impact of urbanization drawing the line of rural and urban landscape. (My work is always connected with poetry and psychology of human being and their value).
Rinku Choudhary
Found Objects
I feel clothing is a highly charged vehicle of expression, its everyday use make it a huge part of our identity, as a result of which it creates dynamic dialogues between itself and the body. In the displayed works I attempt to tap on different metaphors associated with emotions using the found pieces of fabric. Consequently, a riveting dialogue gets created between the unbalanced socio-economic cartography of Hauz Khas village.
Ritika Mittal
Inside-Outside
There are certain distinctions which we encounter while defining a space. We begin by classifying it as an inside and outside space. The inside space is essentially the personal areas we create for ourselves, places where we find immediate solace and outside space is where we step out in lieu of gathering material for that comfort. This work is a site specific attempt to merge these two notions and create form using different architectural structures within gallery space. While comprehending the very idea of field visit I began observing my act of coming in and moving outside of the space. On one such occasion I observed the invisible patterns on the floor and experimented with different materials in order to give it visibility. This process gave rise to the presented work and aided in enriching my comprehension of space.
Ritika Sharma
My Sky Tells the Tale of My Land
Photography and Mixed media on Garware sheet
The city spaces has been rapidly changing its faces, what if all these changes are being erased? How can someone reach their destination? Do we need to set our own milestones? Based on this hypothesis, this work is an attempt to trace my movement and register the first-hand experience while being on the field. During this interrogation with the surrounding space and the parallel awareness of my physical movement in a universal context I was using various modes of mapping my motion by setting my own milestones for mind-mapping which also involved the cartographic reading. This attempt to trace my presence in the space, (space in a universal context) lead to the process of mapping my walk with respect to the sky I am walking beneath.
Shweta Sharma
Memoir-talgic
Found Objects
Memories are the playground on which we build our life. Since they are triggered by different emotions and incidents there is no defined pattern or sequence in which they will come to us. The present artwork is a result of a personal conversation I encountered while exploring the field. It came to me while I saw a swing moving on its own, for me it was intriguing to see how it created a dialogue with its immediate environment and was successful in transferring me to another time and space. While being fascinated by its movement I realised how it stops slowly on its own and leaves individual traces of existence and then suddenly begins moving on its own as the wind blows.
Vikrant Kano
Untitled
Since one of the main focus of the workshop was exploration of field, it gave me an opportunity to stand still and look at my immediate surrounding. The activity enabled me to critically reflect on the notion of a “witness” and its relationship with happenings around it. One of the biggest challenges was to comprehend the idea and then transfer my understanding into a visual language which I uncovered through a series of steps.
- Taking prints from the distinctive surfaces.
- Conversations with our gallery owner Mr. Sharad Chauhan or locals
- Experimenting with different forms of field observations.
During this process I realised that trees like me were also witnesses of the various organic and inorganic changes. The presented works are a part of a self-reflective excavation through which I was able to rethink the physical boundaries of the provided space and the possibilities it offered in the context of trees as an unnoticed crucial element of our environment.
