Title: ‘The spherical boxes’ Year: 2024, Installation at Sukriti Gallery at JKK, for Jaipur art week

 

The boxes displayed are containers for the storage and transportation of images – making an ambiguous poetic assemblage to question the notions of ‘human subjectivity’ and the process of mapping. They contain painted images of landscapes that are expressing grief, melancholia and perhaps loss such few of them are from internet like the image of earth from the moon, the surface of moon, dark surfaces, an empty dark painted nest around stone, a sand-filled land, the collapse of the planet, a empty road, the sky, the sea and other images. Underneath the lid of the boxes, it has paintings human centric activities of doing, making, seeing such as the process of drawing a stone, a knot, the table which forms a map, zoomed-in image of the iris, seeing the image of that which sees, an empty pedestal and chair that demands to be occupied, notions surrounding the word ‘is’, science book diagram of activities done by caterpillar and ants while remaining underground, a thunderstorm and wild tree roots set in a cuboid space, hands holding something, gesture of handshake. The boxes are placed on the branches to make the space raw and chaotic.