In her new series of works, entitled ‘Black Candy’, Mithu Sen explores the elision of audio- visual experiences. The works encompass intriguing tales and sounds, which connect to her drawings.
Mithu Sen skillfully combines drawing, painting and collage. Her drawings tend to extend into installation and other chosen mediums. Intimating her attraction to issues of femininity, interiority, and eroticism, she has drawn sexuality from living and inanimate objects with both sensitivity and political acumen. Juxtaposing intricate and large forms, conflating animals, human figures and inanimate objects, she tries to provoke serious consideration in the viewer with a touch of irony.
The combination of diverse mediums builds their own narratives on the oft-hidden subjects considered, through the complicity of their viewing and interactions with the images and sounds comprising the show. In a way, ‘Black Candy’ is a logical continuation and expansion of her artistic approaches seen in her recent projects that employ self-portraiture, text, word, or sound bytes as an integral conceptual and thematic element.
‘Black Candy’ is an extension of her artistic approaches and concerns. This is her second solo show at the gallery, following her exhibition ‘Drawing Room’. A curatorial note to the show at Mumbai based Chemould Prescott Road informs:
Mithu Sen skillfully combines drawing, painting and collage. Her drawings tend to extend into installation and other chosen mediums. Intimating her attraction to issues of femininity, interiority, and eroticism, she has drawn sexuality from living and inanimate objects with both sensitivity and political acumen. Juxtaposing intricate and large forms, conflating animals, human figures and inanimate objects, she tries to provoke serious consideration in the viewer with a touch of irony.
The combination of diverse mediums builds their own narratives on the oft-hidden subjects considered, through the complicity of their viewing and interactions with the images and sounds comprising the show. In a way, ‘Black Candy’ is a logical continuation and expansion of her artistic approaches seen in her recent projects that employ self-portraiture, text, word, or sound bytes as an integral conceptual and thematic element.
‘Black Candy’ is an extension of her artistic approaches and concerns. This is her second solo show at the gallery, following her exhibition ‘Drawing Room’. A curatorial note to the show at Mumbai based Chemould Prescott Road informs:
“Viewers will have the opportunity to experience stories and sounds that connect to the drawings, developing an experimental new format for the artist even as she maintains a consistent interest in using text, image, and concept in her work. Though the combination of mediums, “Black Candy” offers audiences the opportunity to build their own narratives on the often-private subjects considered, through the complicity of their viewing and interactions with the images and sounds comprising the show.”The works on paper and installations build on the artist’s earlier engagements with intimacy, sexuality, and identity. Her latest large-scale drawings focus on the male psyche and attentive gaze. Importantly, Mithu Sen’s consciously chosen feminine perspective does not distort her ability to represent men in play. She projects her observations and access point as a sensitive woman onto the subjects in ‘Black Candy’ with her characteristic wit and subversion.
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