Wish Fulfilment, the ongoing art show at Chaitanya Art Gallery brings out the deeper, subconscious interpretations of dreams by two artists, Anandakrishnan and Sumesh V.
Besides delving into the psychic and the complex activities of the mind, the artists have individually expressed themselves on subjects like
“ ethinicity” and it being the rhetoric for the support of contemporary Indian art for the last 25 years .This is an apparent substitution for “Modernity”, they state.
Different subjects
Migration is another theme touched upon by Anandakrishnan.
The world of fantasy is brought out through Sumesh Balakrishnan's works.
He has changed course in the present show from sculptures to drawings. Earlier it was a preparatory to his sculptures but now,
“for me drawing is like a diary to recreate my daily fears and joy.
It helps me to bring out my internal illogical world to a logical material world,”he says.
Both artists' works move between the normal, paranormal, conscious and the subconscious.
I think the literary interpretation of a work of art is inadequate to explain the meaning of it. Images in a work always have multiple meanings; images have only arbitrary meaning.
The core of the work always remains inaccessible to the rational faculty of our psyche, says Sumesh V.
Both the artists have done their art studies in Kerala and Hyderabad and won scholarships in the field.
The show is on till November 20.
