Kaleidoscope: Now

Neha Mitra visits four shows and looks at works by twenty-four artists.

- Neha Mitra

A careful tour of three galleries reveals a wide range of subjects addressed by artists. While three of the shows examine how normal the new normal really is, the fourth dwells on matters of patriarchy and politics.

From the 30th of November to the 30th of December, Untitled VII and Untitled VIII at Mumbai’s Priyasri Art Gallery present the breakdown of reality – the lives we lead in the virtual world are often felt to be more real than the desolate streets around us.

B. Vamsi’s watercolours and structures in metal and wood make for a fluid bridge between memory and architecture. Rugged, rusted ruins that have been on a journey through time, clutch on to steps that go to and come from nowhere in particular. Vamsi explores what seems like a minimalistic analogy of life as Mausham R. Manglla’s screenprints use overlapping images to express the intermingling of impressions and memories. Space and what it holds is the artist’s main concern. Manglla’s Walking on the Street with its blue and black criss-cross of sketchily approximated built spaces and bare legs is an intimate chronicle of just about any metropolis.