Man carrying object

A photographic Art Performance at Thane, Mumbai.

This work was a part of the residency program at Piramal Art residency, Cycle 4 / Thane, Mumbai. The Cycle 4 of Piramal Art Residency program was exploring the idea of “Binary” and how artist can experiment the idea of Binary through their mediums. Life is often perceived as binaries but do binaries really exist or is it yet another construct. On the other hand “The Binary” of body and mind, or the physicality and psychological conflict have always been the thrust of my work. My purpose was to explore the binary of psychological violence and realty through my art works and bring forward the subconscious terror and conscious artistry in the same platform. In this program I was exploring the idea of binary between construction and destruction embodied inside and out.

process

The residency space is in Thane, Mumbai and it was a medicine factory before which was demolish during the residency period. I was started drawing of that building which was slowly broken down day by day. The work “Man carrying object” is a gesture or reaction to the space. Instead of doing a live performance I want only an image, or a photograph that is a constructed image in destruction space. I painted Gold on my body and tried to hold an industrial object which is bigger than the body. The visuals of this work come into sight that the industrial object going to engulf the body or is it trying to come out from the object. Or was the body tried to hold the object for long time.

here is the Residency video:

by Anupam Saikia.

#anupamsaikia #piramalartresidency #performanceartinindia #artperformance #visualart