Parul Sharma
Since my childhood, I have been living and commuting in Delhi. While roaming around, I started to look at different architectural spaces, and their place in the urban environment. These urban geographies somehow started to fascinate me where it became the source of my visual vocabulary for art practice. Through my art practice, I am exploring the question of interaction between me and these architectural spaces and what kind of impact they create psychologically as well as physically. How an individual perceives the lived space. How someone achieves peace in this process of commuting in the city’s everyday life? Throughout the process, commutation’s experiences in my art practice was a way to find peace in a chaotic routine.
Curator Charulata Mukherjee says
The experience of seeing and living in a city immediately captures the eye with growing architectural structures that beckon and startle. The concept of architectural space and its complex relationship with the city forms the leitmotif of Parul Sharma’s work. The artist also explores different mediums that include lime dust, marble dust, white cement, Badarpur dust, iron wire, etc. Her live sketches from Seemapuri (essence) take form of a video. The patterns take a poetic form as we constantly move mentally and physically. The silhouettes of the city take forms of lines in her artwork. The positive and negative spaces between the clustered buildings and small openings through which the sunlight peeps in, is a sign of hope. The socio-economic factors and the shifting boundaries of the city take a significant form as Sharma tries to recollect her experience while commuting in this era . . . and the forms changes as the city grows.