INSTALLATIONS
CONSUME! CONSUME ! 2022
FINAL DISPLAY 2022 - JUNE 4- JUNE 6
Sarojini Naidu School of Arts and Communication, University of Hyderabad
Relief print on polypropylene bags, digital prints, and video projection
13 x 16 inches (70 pieces)
The installation attempts to address the complexity, multiplicity, and anxieties of alienation that come with modern living. The surge of technological invasion, culture of consumerism, and fragmentation of society based on it is affecting individuals’ behavior. The sources mainly include social media and the fast-paced exploding nature of today’s world. The accessibility to these sources and our emotional dependence on them have somehow estranged us from society and ourselves. It has reduced our threshold for tolerance and indeed has led us to experience negative emotions intensely. Through this project, I have used materials that are produced repetitively and influenced by popular media. The intention is to compile a set of data ( images, text, sound) that is contrasting and complementing at the same time. The duality in the construction of the work leads the viewer to engage. The translucent polypropylene fabric bags are intentionally used to propel one to see what’s inside. The warning, restriction, surveillance signs - relief prints on the bags act as a dichotomy where one is restricted to see the information inside but at the same time, the curiosity compels one to do so. It also portrays how the ownership of our data can be accessed and encrypted by any other. It is to indicate a condition that requires special attention and at the same time how our emotional being is affected by it. Thus, the bags are metaphorically trying to represent the baggage we often carry.
Endless Search For ________ 2021
FINAL DISPLAY 2022 - JUNE 4- JUNE 6
Sarojini Naidu School of Arts and Communication, University of Hyderabad
Relief print on Paper & Videography
11" x 11" inches
The work was done during the second wave of COVID.
This process-oriented work is one such convergence of inner and outer stimuli which comes through subjective and collective experience. Thus, the hand-pulled prints are the result of negotiating meaning. In between creating and reading it, the over-layering of letters into words became reflective of desperation. Desperation to grasp and understand my role as an artist to this catastrophe. It also became receptive to imagery which I later included taking direct references from what I am seeing, listening to, and knowing. This further articulated the shift in idea and medium. The combination of these fragments then resulted in a video constructed in a contemplative manner. And it became a projection of what came to me and how I responded to it from my readings and rationality.