The works have an apocalyptic quality.
An unnatural, fiery cloud seems to burst in an orange rage in the skies, above a desert landscape
From a ceramic bowl, bubbles multiply and spill into a neighbouring frame, in a manic burst of ephemeral energy
In a nervous gesture of anticipation, a seated man shakes his leg uncontrollably
Behind frosted glass, Gandhi’s charkha moves at a meditative speed, while a printer, now and then, produces archaeological objects in plastic
Reverie. Pause. Rupture challenges the artist and viewer alike to express what may be inexpressible states. The idea of Reverie has so intrigued artists over time that a number of films, pieces of music and writings have been inspired by it. Bachelard, the French philosopher, in The Poetics of Reverie writes of reverie as deeply personal “Imagination attempts to have a future…A world takes form in our reveries and that world is ours”. In a technologically driven world, the space for reverie, the only state perhaps that an individual can own, has shrunk and been consigned as wasteful and unproductive.
Pause, a word with scores of synonyms, is the state in which the creative process unfolds, and in which we view art. If Pause bears the promise of continuity, Rupture creates an irrevocable breach, to disrupt the recognizable order. In the natural world, rupture increasingly signifies rogue weather systems, a rupture or fissure in the surface of the earth, the stress of a “forcible or traumatic tear” on the body -- a breach or fracture. In the history of nations, rupture has come to signify violence and confrontation and the consequences of war, changing borders, devastated homelands.
However, Bachelard again, in The Formation of the Scientific Mind, stresses that progress in science and related fields does not emerge from continuity and sameness, rather it appears through breaks, ruptures and disruptions in knowledge. Rupture innately contains within itself the past, and the seeds of promise of a future that will alter the status quo. Despite its apparently violent appearing, it can give birth to a new life, a new way of being.
-Gayatri Sinha
-Gayatri Sinha