Gunjan TyagiUSA
Title of Piece: WALL OF THE WINDS
Duration: 6m 44s
Short Description
Wall of the winds is the response to the world idea of constructing barriers to keep distance. In ancient times greatest walls were built for defensive purposes but nowadays the whole world is talking about barriers, Barriers of colour, culture, food, language, religion and society. People have been suffering from a lot of pain, displacements, depressions, anger and war. Furthermore these barriers escalated by staying away from our loved ones due to these strange times. Who are those who decide that who is good and who is bad, who will fight and who will suffer, who will build walls and who will lose their own walls?
Curatorial Note
The artist’s work mocks how as human being we hold onto boundaries, so much so, that humans themselves can denote the analogy to the physical form. The steep rise in changes to international geo political boundaries, government policies, migratory phenomenon, radicalisation civil wars, political asylum, religious reclaiming, economic and trade policies are just few reasoning to successively continual making and breaking of boundaries and barriers. The installation performance by the artist, philosophies the impermanence in the faulty premises of permanency devised through boundaries. The global pandemic was to the very sense permeable to boundaries and forced us to rethink.
Biography
Gunjan Tyagi
Gunjan Tyagi, born in 1986, did her Masters in Painting from the renowned Sir J.J. School of Arts, Mumbai. She is a visual artist and experienced in organizing workshops and residency programs. Gunjan Tyagi practices public & natural art as an invited artist representing India in several international art programs. She is Treasurer of TREES, a NGO for global Art promotions based in New Delhi.
She was invited as one of the youngest jury in Seychelles Biennale in November 2017; there were 3 international Jury, one from Mauritius, from Germany and two Seychelles reputed art advisors. She was also invited to Fresh winds Art Biennale in Iceland in December 2017 and iBiennale, Honolulu, Hawaii 2019. She has been showcasing her works in the USA, Europe, and Asia. She is currently living and working in New York.