On a Spiral

So,all the artwork on display derive their elements from a pre-existing artwork. While Abhishek Hazra and Mithu Sen directly appropriate images from the works of artists Yves Klein and Egon Schiele,respectively,Anita Dube and Jeffrey Schiff evoke entire art movements or schools referring specifically to the Arte Povera movement—art made of discarded objects. The exhibition also features Pushpamala N,Josh PS and Seher Shah. Pushpamala,Shah and Josh react to pop culture,photography and other media.

Pushpamala,who says that most of her work is anyway a reaction to (or a derivation of) something that has gone before it,has chosen a series of images from her travelogue project. “Whenever I go out of the country,I get myself photographed at a local photo-studio dressed in the local costume,” says the artist. Dube’s two site-specific works titled Ah and Oh have created collages using material found in newspapers,with lit candles around them. “The work has an element of chance to it because the way the wax melts and forms patterns on the paper is totally accidental,” says Dube. She points out that the word Ah when written in English conveys a sense of joy whereas in Hindi it conveys a sense of pain.