9th April 2009 exhibition opened at Pundole and Guild in Mumbai. Having a solo in Mumbai after 2000.
Photographs: Mohua Ray
“Guaranteed to work throughout its useful life”
Parts and pieces come together to form multiple wholes that acquire new meanings in artist Kausik Mukhopadhyay’s recent works
By Kunal Bhatia
At Pundole Art Gallery a tank assembled out of a car jack, cycle wheels and gears greets visitors while traversing the floor space defined by a brightly lit-up ‘line of control’. Visitors can remote-control its movement but only until a point, after which its own circuit takes over. It then becomes disobedient and navigates its own way within the borders of the imagined nation. Right besides it, a variety of objects sit within close proximity to each other. While some are present in their complete form, fragments of others evoke thoughts about everyday objects and their significance. Some objects turn, twist and twirl while others symbolise implied movement. From toy train tracks to a cast of a human leg, the collection suggests desire, domesticity and control. The final exhibit, a computing machine, perhaps tries to answer some of the questions provoked by the objects in the garden. However, as artist Kausik Mukhopadhyay explains, it does so on its own accord. A system of circuitry triggered by movements and back-grounded by motorized noise sets of one of the three light bulbs. “But, all questions of the universe are answered by one of three precise, no-nonsense words – yes, no or cancel,” he adds.
Photographs: Mohua Ray
“Guaranteed to work throughout its useful life”
Parts and pieces come together to form multiple wholes that acquire new meanings in artist Kausik Mukhopadhyay’s recent works
By Kunal Bhatia
At Pundole Art Gallery a tank assembled out of a car jack, cycle wheels and gears greets visitors while traversing the floor space defined by a brightly lit-up ‘line of control’. Visitors can remote-control its movement but only until a point, after which its own circuit takes over. It then becomes disobedient and navigates its own way within the borders of the imagined nation. Right besides it, a variety of objects sit within close proximity to each other. While some are present in their complete form, fragments of others evoke thoughts about everyday objects and their significance. Some objects turn, twist and twirl while others symbolise implied movement. From toy train tracks to a cast of a human leg, the collection suggests desire, domesticity and control. The final exhibit, a computing machine, perhaps tries to answer some of the questions provoked by the objects in the garden. However, as artist Kausik Mukhopadhyay explains, it does so on its own accord. A system of circuitry triggered by movements and back-grounded by motorized noise sets of one of the three light bulbs. “But, all questions of the universe are answered by one of three precise, no-nonsense words – yes, no or cancel,” he adds.
1 comment:
sanah was enjoying the work so much :)
while helping you put it together, i was doing the exact same thing too, peering at objects, going under them, and just gazing at them!
god, i hardly seem to be talking about your garden anymore!!!
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