untitle-1 (Graffiti series)
Oil · 2016 819 views
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Details
- Category
- Painting
- Medium
- Oil
- Dimensions
- 5 × 7 in
- Year
- 2016
- Edition
- Unique piece
- Framed
- No
- Signed
- Yes
The wall was a repeating metaphor in most of my earlier works. But they used to be another formal element in the overall scheme of things. In this series I made the wall as my object and the surface too. I found an interesting feature while dealing with wall in the paintings. As a medium, painting generally falls within the elite arts. But while making the wall as a theme and subject I felt it could alter the enter dynamics attached to the sophisticated medium of painting as such. Wall as a site is public. It is a palimpsest of various inscriptions which talk about various ideologies and traits of the existing society. It’s a site of contestation where contradicting ideologies compete to get a larger visibility in the public domain.
Since I come from a rural background my fascination with the urban culture has slowly led to understand the inherent contradictions of urbanity. So I think my work is more about this phenomenon. Through my works I try to express my discomfort with my existing surroundings
