Art, like fashion, is all about trends – several artists working with the same unusual medium or with similar subjects. Ornella D’Souza walks through IAF and comes up with four that are currently in favour
Art, like fashion, is all about trends – several artists working with the same unusual medium or with similar subjects. Ornella D’Souza walks through IAF and comes up with four that are currently in favour
1. Sudipta Das
Paper | Sudipta Das: Soaring to Nowhere, 250 paper figurines of humans suspended from the ceiling, is an attempt to showcase the refugee crisis
2. Sachin George Sebastian
Paper | Sachin George Sebastian: A parallel between paper wires and people being connected in India
3. Ganesh Selvaraj
Paper | Ganesh Selvaraj: Abstract paper folds that question the basis of creation and perception of the world around us
4. Ganesh Selvaraj
Paper | Ganesh Selvaraj: A jagged creation of a one-point perspective
5. Shormii Chowdhury
Paper | Shormii Chowdhury: Handmade paper mâché dolls was a recurring theme at IAF
6. Sunita Maharjan
Textiles | Sunita Maharjan: Fabric collages that refer to landscapes that have gradated over time and space
7. revati sharma singh
Textiles | Revati Sharma Singh: Where it All Began 196 flags with 92.5 sterling silver grains
8. Manish Nai
Textiles | Manish Nai: The artist’s signature style of used clothes-bars signify infinity of masses and movements
9. Reena Saini Kallat
Textiles | Reena Saini Kallat: Verso-Recto-Recto-Verso (2017) reflects the preambles of the constitution of an undivided India in tie-and-dye dot patterns that morph from Roman script into Braille
10. Rabindra Shrestha
Body Art | Rabindra Shrestha: Humanity (2015) Thumbprints that indicate diversities of the burgeoning human race
11. Madhvi Subrahmaniam
Body Art | Madhvi Subrahmaniam: Five floating ceramic moulds of the artist’s pregnant belly
12. Khushbu Patel
Body Art | Khushbu Patel: A lifelong battle with various skin allergies have translated into abstract landscapes
13. Ayesha Sultana
Architecture | Ayesha Sultana: Paper works with frictions and ruptures that at times resemble metal
14. mark prime
Architecture | Mark Prime: Polished aluminium rods reflect the artist’s signature light installations
15. Anoli Perera
Architecture | Anoli Perera: The City, Janus-Faced is a metaphor for the schizophrenia of cities in paper and acrylic
16. Praneet Soi
Architecture | Praneet Soi: Huisduiner Church in acrylic paint and silverpoint on canvas
17. Chetnaa
Architecture | Chetnaa: An unsual work by the artist on the link between Islamic geometric imagery and light