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Knock Knock curated by Ashima Tshering

from The Earth Is Still Going Around The Sun

by Khoj International Artists' Association

from The Earth Is Still Going Around The Sun, page 16

Article from: The Earth Is Still Going Around The Sun

Pata curated by Poulomi Paul

I often find myself using humour to comment on something that could be challenging to address otherwise. After strategies and reasons having been theorized, lets see humour play out in contemporary creation.

Collaborators for this project reflect on their personal encounters through this lens and share their experiences. The curatorial theme blends with the spatial design and thus plays an important role in communication. The composition and environment of the space enables an informal interaction between the artworks and the viewer.

Allow yourself to momentarily escape from the gallery space and interact with works. Knock Know lets one break away from the performance of the viewer, to sit back and have a laugh.

Artworks

Jishnav Iyer, The Worst Conversationalist; Sijya Gupta, Barbie Portraits; Urvi Vora, SKUM, Reactions to SKUM; Vineet Vohra, Hashtag

top: Jishnav Iyer, The Worst Conversationalist bottom: Sijya Gupta, Barbie Portraits facing page: Urvi Vora, SKUM

Bodies click. Bodies swivel. Creep out. Or spill. Wounds flicker, alight paleness. Register painless. Did I breathe in another’s memories, mistaking them for my own? Shored against silent stones. Amidst cobwebbed corners. In between the warbled call of a nameless river.

The mind is a glove that holds. Protects. Conceals. Yesterday, I reached out and touched the soil inside my skin and I blazed and I burned. I. A whimsical caricature of myself. A some body. Maybe I returned.

Home is a cryptic poem that no one comprehends.

Do bodies belong? Or does embodiment splinter a whole into irreparable fractures? Were we born dismembered? Are we destined to be incomprehensibly disfigured? Who - and what - deserves the dignity of being a body? Some body? No body? Every body? This exhibition attempts to read into bodies – human bodies, natural bodies, man-made bodies – to decrypt that fundamental question about what it means to be human and whether this sense of being is rooted in the material world. The earth emerges as a prot/antagonist in this story of self, a playground where we make play, chart meaning.