Works

INSTALLATIONS

Czhand Tum Tim Mazar Posh

(Find me those daffodils)

Mixed mediaSite: Nandan Gallery, Kala-Bhavana, Visva-Bharati, India; 2023

A work in progress spanning a large era of my personal history and visual cultural encounters so far are interpreted in a variable installation. The work is a cluster of random objects acquired, collected and crafted from various materials and sources. The main theme here is to explore the memories associated with my younger years and the later wandering.the prints displayed are lithographic prints of flowers on seed sachets or packages, mass printed by a nursery which used to exist on the river bank of Jhelum known as Sutton Seeds. The nursery was a daily sight. I ran into during my various visits on the banks (bund) of Jhelum river. The nursery exists or not I am not sure.The envelopes were collected by one of my teachers in Applied Arts , and given to me to learn how to draw flowers. those were the days when visuals were scarce in and were hard to come bye especially the unknowns were hard to come by and They were like precious gifts for me when they were given to me I kept them as a token of old time. Nowadays lithography is hardly used for commercial purposes. They have acquired a status of art Hence this display becomes more relevant to this work and to the times.

MASKING REALITY

Charred notebooks and video footage.Using art to protest repression of thought.Site: Chaudhuri Bari, Kolkata, India; 2006

Concept The work primarily focuses on the concept of perceiving reality, and the expression of it in terms of visual presentation with a special considerations to the time and place i.e. Chaudhuri Bari (The House of Chaudhuris) the site provided for the presentation of work and myself as the presenter of the work. Therefore I emphasised upon the work into three apparent ways; two of them mentioned as the site and the artist as myself and the third aspect will be the interaction between these two into the work itself as ‘Masking Reality'.

GATEWAY TO LIFE

Straw And Bamboo; 2002Nandan Mela, Santiniketan

EINFÜHLUNG

Painted Xerox Photos In Tricolour; 2003

EVOLVING SCULPTURES

Materials and FormsWood and Metal; 2003-2004

"After exploring the possibilities of this work the work was introduced to the students of Kala Bhavana who explored it in their own ways and the process was a work in itself”

MANDALA 1

Plastic Bags Filled With Tinted Water; 2002

"This work is the most inexpensive one among all my works I have done and was inspired by empty pocket and abundant ideas which came across during the search for creating works which will neither be forgotten in posh drawing rooms of wealthy people nor get rotten in gallery basement or museum storeroom”

MANDALA 2

MYSTIC POND

Terracotta Fishes Immersed In WaterAlong With Terracotta And Fiberglass Forms; 2002-2003

HOW TO MAKE THE INVISIBLE TREE TO BE VISIBLE

Tinted Water In Plastic Tubes; 2002“This was another obsessive attempt to include water into my works and involve the viewer actively as a participant in the creative process”

AFTER THE CRACKDOWN

Painted Wood Stitched With Metal Wire (first version)“This work was created from the left over wood used by students of Kala Bhavana the faculty of fine arts in Santiniketan in the year 2002 and went through different transitions before its final display, originally conceived for a land art project from an idea for the monument to disappeared persons which was not created later.”

Sinking Silhouette; 2003

HOW TO MAKE THE INVISIBLE RED WATER TO BE VISIBLY RED

Plastic Filled With Tinted Water Dripping Through Stone Rod; 2002“A conceptual idea to be hanged beneath the nine bridges crossing the river Jhelum in the heart of Srinagar”

MASHQ: 2008

Mashq literally means exercise. It is a Kashmiri style of slate, made from wood in rectangle shape with handle. This was commonly used in the old days for children to practice writing the alphabets with the bamboo pen and clay-water. In one sense, it was the first medium on which the child’s hand was conformed or institutionalised to follow certain rules and norms. But in the context of the workshop on ‘Freedom of Expression’, mashq is transformed to be a space for free- expression of the eight participants who are the students of Kala-Bhavana. They used the bamboo pen and clay-water like those Kashmiri children but not being dictated in any sense. Some produced two dimensional works, some added up texture and dimension with various medias. The work process were captured with still photography and later stitched into moving image sort of time-lapse. The installation of the work involves the projection of the loop of time-lapse, the loop of audio part and the assemblage of the clean mashqs. Different layers of space and time are juxtaposed; the clean mashqs in the real space and the mashqs with different expressions in time- lapse, the anonymous voices expressing their opinions and the visual expressions with their artists.

VICIOUS CIRCLE: 2009

Wood, metal and jute

DIMENSIONS: 2013

MY FOOT YOUR FLOWER: 2015

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