‘Myth – Reality: Constructing Cult-u're’ at The Guild

Mithu Sen’s practice steers between creating installations, paintings and collages with mixed media. She provokes the viewer to question our social values and our actions as human beings. She invites the viewer to play and interact with meanings of ‘self’. There is a notion of deconstructing the old to bring in the new. The viewer is compelled to relate to her works at a personal level, through self-analysis of their own identity.

Her ‘Myth U’ (30 x 22”; mixed media watercolor on embossed handmade paper) is a self portrait, ‘and how friends/people like to read/see/write/call me...though it is funny but it has an inner psychology that drives me...it’s how people spell/ed my name...’, as she puts it.

Vidya Kamat is an academician and an artist, who works with new media. Her area of interest and research has been ancient Indian myths and symbols. Her ‘Blooming Lotus’ takes on the ancient Indian system of Tantra, which depicts various chakras as the centres of the consciousness. The diagrammatic structure suggests the current state of 'Indian' consciousness where each lotus blooms in a materialistic gain. Blooming Lotus, tries to create a linkage between the ancient and contemporary Indian reality of the spiritual and materialistic world.

Vijayendra Sekhon received his M.F.A. from M.S. University, Baroda, India and a second Masters in Interactive Telecommunications from Tisch School of the Arts, New York University. About his work, ‘A letter to/from the future’ (mixed media on canvas), he states: “I look at the work from present and future points of view simultaneously.

“At one level it is my attempt to leave behind clues for future archaeologists to uncover the world we live in? And at second level I take the role of that future archaeologist. I tried to imagine what will survive the time, how it may get distorted? How over time new myths may get fused with some old surviving ones? How reality of our time will distort future myths and mutate new heroes and legends?”