Desolate
2021-02-19 - 2021-03-28 | Museo Camera, Shri Ganesh Mandir Marg, DLF Phase IV, Sector 28, Gurugram, Haryana, 122002, India
An exhibition that attempts to explore the extension of image-based practices through materiality and technique.
Curated by Rahul Kumar

The curatorial framework for this exhibition is two pronged: conceptual & emotional reference to the idea of desolate, and exploring the genre of image-based art.
With the advent of the COVD-19 pandemic, humanity has experienced isolation like never before. But what does solitary mean to us?
Does it imply a sense of freedom, or does it evoke loneliness?
Does it infer hierarchy, or is it about a feeling of being left-out?
Does it mean strength in standing tall, or does it encourage looking inward?
Selected early to mid-career artists from all across the country react to this impression in their own ways.
All the practices included in this show are also bound by the use of photography as an element in their works. There are photographers who present images on the idea and notion of desolate itself. And then there are artists who merely use image as a component in their work. The exhibition attempts to explore this extension of image-based practices through materiality (variety of surfaces to print images), as also the techniques used in the process of producing the works.

ANDHIKA RAMADIANAquaticDigital Print on paper20 x 16 ′′

ANDHIKA RAMADIANCuriosityDigital Print on paper20 x 16 ′′

ANDHIKA RAMADIANCycleDigital Print on paper20 x 20 ′′

ANDHIKA RAMADIANStuckDigital Print on paper20 x 20 ′′

JIGNESH PANCHALLanguage of the Wall set of 9 , 2020Mixed Media on Paper12 x 8 ′′

RANJEET SINGHThe Black Truth Project 14, 2018-2019Archival Print on Paper20 x 14 ′′

RANJEET SINGHThe Black Truth Project 2, 2018-2019Archival Print on Paper20 x 14 ′′

RANJEET SINGHThe Black Truth Projects 3, 2018-2019Archival Print on Paper20 x 14 ′′

SAMANTA BATRA MEHTAThe Last of the Uncolonized Lands #6, 2010C Print30 x 30 ′′

SANJAY DASCosmic RythmArchival Print on Paper50 x 40 ′′

SANJAY DASPrayer Flags 1Archival Print on Paper33 x 22 ′′

SANJAY DASSerenity 1Archival Print on Paper22 x 33 ′′

SANJAY DASSerenity 2Archival Print on Paper22 x 33 ′′

SANJAY DASUntitled 1Archival Print on Paper30 x 45 ′′

SAVITHA RAVIIdeal Home 1, 2019Intaglio Print31 x 22 ′′

SAVITHA RAVIIdeal Home II, 2019Intaglio Print31 x 22 ′′

SAVITHA RAVIReflection of Rain set of 6 , 2019Cyanotype on Woodcut Print13 x 9 ′′

SAVITHA RAVIRemembrance- Places, Objects and Feelings set of 4 , 2019Cyanotype on Intaglio Print13 x 19.5 ′′

SAVITHA RAVIThe Corridor, 2020Intaglio Print21.5 x 42 ′′

SAVITHA RAVIThe Ideal Home III, 2019Intaglio Print21.5 x 21.5 ′′

Still Life
2021-03-24 - 2021-03-31
The process of living is tinged with uncertainty, an uncertainty made
more palpable in daily events, encounters, and tragedies. Its basis is
the acceptance of universal frailties, the loss of all things. A house is
built; it corrodes in rain and sun, is beaten by seasonal changes.
Organic growth rises in its crevices. Every day it dies a little more.
Till walls cave in, brick turns to dust, and fresh life replaces
completely, till even the plants die and disappear into earth and soil
leaving but one reminder: Youth is but a minor itch, it passes; the
progression of ageing is unforgiving as ever. Still, evolutionary loss is
comforted by time’s elongated length. People feast before extinction,
find God in belief; they migrate in hope. Tradition and custom
intervene. Mosque, temple, and church are clothed in conforming
uniforms. Games are invented to enlarge purpose, create conflicts,
elongate life. Ageing, decline and demise are accorded personal time
frames, accelerated for some, stretched and seemingly limitless for
others. We live, we learn to love because we are dying. The
archeology of cities, the rise and decay of architecture, the dimming
focus of design and material objects, private transformations and
public cultures, the physical residue of all that manifests as life and
material, transforms from birth to love to struggle to dissolution, to
loss and memory, finally to recall and remembrance. Things die,
there’s grief. Things remain beautiful, even in sorrow.
-Gautam Bhatia

GAUTAM BHATIAAmbitionMixed Media on Paper

GAUTAM BHATIABig BusinessMixed Media on Paper

GAUTAM BHATIACall of NatureMixed Media on Paper

GAUTAM BHATIACurse of Common PlaceMixed Media on Paper

GAUTAM BHATIACycle of WealthMixed Media on Paper

GAUTAM BHATIADeath of BirthMixed Media on Paper

GAUTAM BHATIAEnd of ReligionMixed Media on Paper

GAUTAM BHATIAFamily ReunionMixed Media on Paper

GAUTAM BHATIAFeasting ExtinctionMixed Media on Paper

GAUTAM BHATIAGoing NowhereMixed Media on Paper

GAUTAM BHATIAHouse of CardsMixed Media on Paper

GAUTAM BHATIAInnocence of LossMixed Media on Paper

GAUTAM BHATIALabor of LoveMixed Media on Paper

GAUTAM BHATIAThe MakerMixed Media on Paper

GAUTAM BHATIAPainterMixed Media on Paper

GAUTAM BHATIAReviving FaithMixed Media on Paper

GAUTAM BHATIAThe Birds have FlownMixed Media on Paper

GAUTAM BHATIAThe Birth of DeathMixed Media on Paper

GAUTAM BHATIAThis Is LifeMixed Media on Paper

GAUTAM BHATIAUnwashed CityMixed Media on Paper

GAUTAM BHATIAWriterMixed Media on Paper

GAUTAM BHATIAPrayerBronze

GAUTAM BHATIASelfie Circa 1930Bronze

GAUTAM BHATIAselfie Circa 1950Bronze

GAUTAM BHATIAUnveiledBronze

GAUTAM BHATIAToothpaste of MigrantsBronze

GAUTAM BHATIAWomen of FaithBronze

GAUTAM BHATIAHung ParliamentBronze

GAUTAM BHATIAGame of ThronesMixed Media on Paper

GAUTAM BHATIAMercy KillingMixed media on paper
