Sakshi Gallery presents a group exhibition fearturing recent works from Dilip Chobisa, Kartik Sood and Siddhartha Kararwal. The artists' practices are linked by their common pursuit of utilizing matter and its in-between existences in an attempt to question the physical and in turn, probe reality itself. The exhibition will orient, disorient and reorient viwers to shape-shift and transform both from within and in relation to their physical environement.

Dilip Chobisa's work occupies a space between the being and absence of the third dimension. Intrigued by the intimate and the minute in life, he combines drawings, wooden frames, lights and his knowledge of stage craftsmanship to animate the dimensional propositions of constructed spaces. His works are framed by elements of magical realism and dramatic surrealistic tones, inducing the viwer to peep in and explore.

Maneurvering hybrid procceses appropriation and manipulation of found objects and archived photographs, Kartik Sood explores the tension between the handmade and the mechanical, the visible and the concealed, the material and the conceptual. He creates an interface with the element of "time" preserving the past and mapping cultural metamorphosis through the medium of photography. His multiple protagonists are audible through the technological "heart strings" forming quiet images of contemplation; but soon revealing an enigmatic, disquieting nature. In their decontextualization, Sood creates fragments of lost narratives, elements of incomplete text carelly recomposing to suggest new meaning for a new time.

Siddartha Kararwal's practice examines the existential in the tangible material that constitutes its. Utilizing quotidian and even mundane materials such as plastic bags, foam sheets, firecrackers, cardboard, iron, fiber, clay and plaster of paris, Kararwal twists and turns materials in unfathomable ways, inducing laughter and fright. His work offers a decisive commentary on the deviating cultures of commerce, manifest as sculptures and installations, as well as digital freeze-grames and performance-based montages.

Image: © Kartik Sood, Sakshi Gallery