When artists decide to use craft elements in their works, they take on a major challenge that can buttress or destabilize their metier. Whether used playfully or with serious intent, the artwork treads a precarious tightrope between gimmickry and meaningful contextualization of the craft practice employed.
Over the last decade, several artists in Baroda have experimented with crafts-based modes and have often pulled off some bold initiatives. Kruti Thaker has used fabric and embroidery traditions of her native Saurashtra with panache but one has not seen any of her work in the last one year. Chinmoyi Patel is another promising artist who draws from textural crafts-oriented practices.
One afternoon, she came to the school where I am a trustee asking for busted footballs. I am familiar with Chinmoyi’s art practice and know how she has juxtaposed wood, metal, ceramics and fabric to create works in the past. Her new sculptural project grew out of working with textiles to create cactus forms in planters as a designed product; she dramatically contrasted the rough, thorny cacti textures with foam-filled, bright, ikat fabrics that covered the soft forms.
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Parts, Wholes And The Spaces In Between
Sonal Sundararajan introduces Samira Rathod's free-spirited and rebellious explorations in the world of architecture, furniture and design.
"The Fine Art of Going to the Pictures."
Dr. Banerjee in Dr. Kulkarni's Nursing Home at Chemould Prescott Road brings together 26 paintings featuring a series of dramatic scenes from Hindi and Bengali films. In conversation with Abhay Sardesai, artist Atul Dodiya talks about childhood trips to movie halls, painted figures gripped by tension, and the closeness and remoteness of cinematic images.
"To Finally Have Something of Your Own to Mine."
Dayanita Singh is the recipient of the coveted 2022 Hasselblad Award. Keeping the photograph at the centre, she speaks to Shreevatsa Nevatia about books, book objects, photo novels, exhibitions and museums.
OF DIVINE LOSS
Shaurya Kumar explores the relationship between the subject and object of devotion, finds Aranya.
THE PAST AND ITS SHADOWS
Neha Mitra visits two shows and three artists in Mumbai.
FORCE OF NATURE
Alwar Balasubramaniam dwells on absences and ephemeralities in his new work, states Meera Menezes.
SHAPES OF WATER
Devika Sundar's works delineate the murky, malleable boundaries between the human body and the organic world, says Joshua Muyiwa.
INTIMATIONS OF INTIMACY
Sunil Gupta shares his journey with Gautami Reddy.
THE FRACTURED PROSPECT
Nocturnal landscapes as ruins in the making? Adwait Singh looks at Biraaj Dodiya's scenes of loss.
TEETERING BEYOND OUR GRASP
Meera Menezes traces Mahesh Baliga's journey from Moodabidri to London.