Pro.ject invites young and established artists to propose an exhibition that will utilize the spaces of the Shrine Empire Gallery for a single comprehensive project.

fields of grass
...a mountain
a cascading ‘charpai’
blue skies
a man’s turban becomes his shroud

These are the elements which make up the installation by Kiran Chandra made in the space of Shrine Empire Gallery. The intention of the artist is to comment and contemplate issues of land distribution, it’s use, and the growing divide between the urban and rural realities of India. Who gives, who gains. In the profit above people practices of Capiltalist economies, power disconnects us from ourselves.

In viewing the work, rhythms surface between the writing on the wall to the shrouding of the site of the gallery. The gallery looses it’s pristine white walls and becomes an immersive environment where there is soil under your feet, the bluest of skies above and green fields around. This space which alludes to the natural is a complete construct resonating that disconnect further.

Transcribed audio files mimic green grass, the blue skies are made from a paint chip. Images from the video surface in the drawings, which in turn play with the stability of the sculptural objects in the space. No one piece stands alone or occupies that revered status of art object. The subtle connections within the materials point at the interdependence of life. Questions and implications hover in this strange diorama like space.

About the Artist

Kiran Chandra is an artist and educator living in Brooklyn in New York She did her B.A in St. Stephens College in Delhi and is currently getting her MFA at Hunter College in New York. She had her first solo in Kolkata ( Ganges Art Gallery) and has shown with Project 88 in Mumbai. She has also exhibited widely in the U.S. She has taught with the Museum of Modern Art, Dia Art Foundation, Museum of the Moving Image among other educational institutions in New York.

This is her first show in Delhi.