From the opacity of plastic to the density of bone, from the fragility of glass to the potency of mercury and blood. All the three artists chosen to be part of ‘Moonwalk’ bring a fresh and exciting perspective to material, matter and method. Through this show we will continue to (re)examine the very nature of how art is viewed and move away from looking at art as an ‘object’ and move closer to an understanding of art as an ‘experience’ where all of the senses are actively engaged in a given space and time.
Aaditi Joshi [1980] has been working with plastic as a medium since the past seven years. Plastic has raised the walls of debate for it and against it. However Aaditi transcends the controversies by taking the approach of an observer. Mesmerized by the unexplored characteristic and aesthetic beauty of mundane usage, she takes ordinary plastic bags, seals them together after carefully compressing and heating them, until it gets the desired dimensionality and opacity. Besides the sculpture, we will be showing a video titled ‘suffocation’ as well as some dry pastel work by the artist
Bone is a metonymy for the body’s form stripped down to a bare single essential unit after its inevitable abandonment. Nityanand Ojha [1981] addresses the abstract culture contained within, whilst opening up a diametrical plane of thought by decorating it with consumerist fetish for oxidized women’s jewellery; both bound to the larger consequence of reanimation.
The works of Tatheer Daryani [1980] are mostly autobiographical but allow the viewer to (re)interpret them as per their own experience and perception. She uses blood and mercury in her work. It is a quality of mercury that once lost from containment it is almost impossible to retrieve. Its ‘mercurial’ like its name. She combines in glass vessels, mercury with her own blood – creating a new and fantastical amalgam as industrial material merges with organic bodily elements. This bears the visual qualities of a strange emotive jewel.