One of India’s most innovative and sensitive new media artists, Gigi Scaria expresses his concern over sociopolitical issues in his art.
Born in 1973 in, Kerala, he did his B.F.A. (painting from the College of Fine Arts, Thiruvananthapuram, and M.F.A. from Jamia Millia University, New Delhi, in 1995 and 1998, respectively. The talented artist earnestly encounters the harsh reality of urban life in all its complexities and contrasts, to invent certain images.
The idea is to grasp the complexities of today’s urban environ. With humor, wit and irony he unravels the layers of reality to engage the viewers. In his videos, photographs and public projects, he amalgamates sounds, objects, signs and words. All these facets of his practice are evident in his new series of works ‘Amusement Park’, at Mumbai based Chemould Prescott.
Elaborating on the artistic agenda, Gigi Scaria states, “Ever since civilization was formed and nurtured, the city has become a fascinating phenomenon. The world started to live up to its expectations and it (the city) continuously demanded a space, character and logic of its own. This was necessary in order to meet the aspirations of an urban nomad.
"Notions of politics, identity, nationalism, industrialization, crime, madness, spirituality, modernism, lifestyle and anything and everything the human being have been proud to assert as his/her own are produced and consumed by the city on a constant basis."
He concludes that indulging in the core of urban life made the urbanite think of himself/herself as a romantic outsider to the system they deeply inhaled. "Many ran away from all that they belonged to, but failing to conform with the ‘outside’, returned with greater intensity and conviction that urbanism is the spiritual condition of modern man," he states to sum up the spirit of his new collection. In essence, ‘Amusement Park’ is a logical extension of an urban romanticism.
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