‘In what language does rain fall over tormented cities’, on at Gallery 27, makes use of rain as a metaphor of unity. “In a society that’s witnessing divisions over issues of faith, caste, color and such, why not take a look at the issues which might be frequent to us?” asks Jitha Karthikeyan, artist and curator of the present. She provides, “Feelings like grief, battle, ache and laughter are frequent to human beings, like rain that falls equally over us all.”
Coimbatore-based Jitha began curating artwork in 2018 and has chosen eight artists to weave the narrative utilizing their works. The distinction, she explains is that she allowed the artists to interpret her curatorial assertion and supply works associated to it. She didn’t select the artwork however allowed the artists to be energetic members within the exhibition. “The artists got the liberty to share their views,” she says, including that works are accompanied by artist’s assertion.
Jyothiraj Mayampilly
Although rain stays unseen on the canvasses, it’s sensed within the artwork by the colors of various feelings. KT Mathai scours the town and finds the “metropolis’s soul” within the nocturnal beings who stroll the streets. His vibrant works painting the marginalised in deep slumber after a day’s work. Aami Atmaja who transposes the phrase chitrakari (artist) into kithrachari paints, in watercolors, the cries of individuals as exaggerated smiles. PV Nandan’s prepare ferrying the man travellers is his interpretation of a shared, rain-washed journey. Madhu Venugoplan’s works specific, Homeostasis, a steadiness with out which human performance shouldn’t be doable. Anupama Alias interprets the frequent language of grief in her works, as “the continuation of cruelties all by historical past” and portrays a lady on the centre of it. Jyothiraj Mayampilly’s figurative works is a direct testimony to his experiences, he writes. He focusses on the lives of the farmers, immediately impacted by rainfall. Mibin’s small framed objects and a central portray is of a delicate acutely aware life and the basics that make it occur. Rain sends Sujith SN into introspection and he retreats into his internal world. His six works mirror the conversations therein.
Jitha chosen the artists on the premise of their artwork follow and join together with her personal summary emotional expressions.
In her curatorial word, titled after Pablo Neruda’s well-known line, she presumably hopes for the divisions to be buried in a “cemetery of variations.”
The present concludes on September 25; Gallery 27 ,Star Junction, Mattancherry.