Artists who represent India's new art idiom

In its latest group exhibition Gallery BMB invited five renowned and highly talented artists from GALLERYSKE, Bangalore. It’s probably for the first time that they exhibited together in the city of Mumbai. The works, most of which created especially for this show, celebrated a confreres program. Here is a look at the three artists whose works form part of the show:

Repetition of a single object, image or action over creates a pattern, according to Avinash Veeraraghavan who elaborates: “Patterns repeated over and over again in combinations one with the other create an image. This rule of construction constitutes the structure of all the works shown here, where layers of patterns are overlaid one on top of the other to create images and stories. The stories I tell are of decay and dead spirits, archeology and memory, purity and it actual constituents in horror, sex and castration.’

On the other hand, Navin Thomas’s work interest in the travels and after-life of electronic gadgets, salvaged electronic junk, mostly discarded transistors and smaller objects, with a possible, audio capacity. The object in the video was found by the artist in the Chinese toy market in Chandini Chowk. The dismembered toy buoyantly oscillates from side to side while singing an Iranian song marking the object by three cultures in its short life.

Sakshi Gupta’s work looks at contradictions within which we live. In an attempt to fuse real with potential, lasting with ephemeral, solitude with chaos her work searches for ways to find an intellectual and emotional equilibrium. Working primarily with industrial scrap, her work is transformative and through transition explores the intrinsic artistry in atrophy. Embodying a spirit of playful non-knowledge, unlearning, and productive confusion; the two works she presents here are dedicated to the inquisitive mind and to the pleasures of finding our way in the dark.