In the vibrant and numerous layers of contemporary art, there emerges a profound shift—a renaissance rooted in tradition, innovation, and sustainability. Across bustling streets and quiet alleys, artists are reclaiming discarded materials, breathing new life into forgotten remnants, and challenging the conventions of commercialism. In this burgeoning movement, the act of repurposing textiles becomes not…
Today's fast urban city-metro life, dependent on numerous screens, often reduces to competing with time and life, and in that circle of survival and indulgence with relentless consumption of material and psychological, the human psyche usually forgets its primordial values to nature and environment. The symbiotic relationship with nature diminished long back and while the…
Exploring the fusion of rural heritage with contemporary art, Nishchay Thakur's unique practice embodies cultural memory and sustainability amidst a rapidly changing landscape. Through his transformative use of organic materials and traditional techniques, Thakur's work offers a poetic reflection on the evolving relationship between agrarian society and modernity. This article focuses on the unique, one-of-a-kind…
The humans who are incessantly littering and throwing away their plastic bottles at the beach obviously don't want marine species to perish or the ocean to overflow into the city, but they litter unconsciously because they simply 'can' do so. The artist attempts to confront this collective unconscious practice by directly addressing the treatment of…
In response to the current issues of environmental degradation, Manveer Singh Gautam aka Plasticvalla, his art practice is rooted in the discourse around ‘art for nature’ while directly working at the intersection of art and sustainability. His artistic efforts seep into the routine of every day that points towards acts at the individual level, the…
The times that we inhabit are a clear-cut demarcation of territorial and regimental operations. It is these lines,
sometimes invisible and sometimes made distinctly visible and at times deliberately blurred that announce the
subject position and subjecthood of an entity. Not just a living existence but also the ‘other’ that makes us aware of
power.…
The story of art goes back to the narratives of human civilizations. The element of time has been the crucial factor,
a bracket that keeps dodging its transgressive nature. The attempt here is not to look at its overwhelming forms
and appearances, ideologies, and the multiple time frames that it has existed in; but a…
A large part of our childood is made of stories, as are out personalities. They have the power to change the world and with that very essence, Jeff Hong creates his art. Jeff Hong is an animation and storyboard artist who works in Disney Studios. Based out of Los Angeles, Hong developed a series called…
“I should understand the land, not as a commodity, an inert fact to be taken for granted, but as an ultimate value, enduring and alive, useful and beautiful and mysterious and formidable and comforting, beneficent and terribly demanding, worthy of the best of man’s attention and care.” ― Wendell Berry, The Hidden Wound.
Soghra Khurasani’s ongoing…
“For one human being to love another: that is perhaps the most difficult of all our tasks, the ultimate, the last test and proof, the work for which all other work is but preparation.” ― Rainer Maria Rilke
How do we define love? Is there a single answer to this or does the definition change with…
“We leave something of ourselves behind when we leave a place, we stay there, even though we go away. And there are things in us that we can find again only by going back there.”― Pascal Mercier, Night Train to Lisbon
Goa-based artist Sahil Naik’s solo project ‘All Is Water, and to…
“Photographs are a way of imprisoning reality…One can’t possess reality, one can possess images–one can’t possess the present but one can possess the past.”
― Susan Sontag,
On Photography
After ‘The Writer’s Eye’ and ‘The Historian’s Eye’ William Dalrymple is once again flaunting his photographer persona in his ongoing exhibition titled, ‘The Traveller’s Eye’ at…