5 FEBRUARY 2014 TO 12 FEBRUARY 2014 | EXHIBITION

The idea of conflict is inherent to art. If there is no friction, no unsettling in the act of perception, then there can be no emergence of meaning. The meaning that we associate with art and experience is often of the kind that is a web of interconnections that is not possible to hold together in any other way. There is a kind of excuse needed, a leap of play on the part of the audience in the cycle of art-making and art perception that makes it possible to model fragile ideas.

Truth is fragile. There is no platform for considering anything as truthful around us anymore. We live in times of universal rejection of the possibility of objective truth. Subjective truth on the other hand requires an immense fortitude to be upheld. In the rise of the network and the rise of the peer-pressure at the larger systemic level through perpetual sociality, today it is difficult and rare to see personal positions out-of-sync with the larger pool of reality. Such positions are usually criminal or anti-social. But sometimes they are not. _Experiments with Truth and Time_ is a celebration of such positions. With reference to Gandhi and his notions of arriving at the truthful and our present condition, this celebration acquires a tentative dissonance with what we have come to idolise culturally and socially.

Works in the exhibition reflect on the positions that they occupy and the objective truth that they project. What can experimental truth be in practice? How are experiences received without verification or validation?

Curated by: Prayas Abhinav

Artists: Malavika Rajnarayan, Akshay Rathore, Neha Lavingia, Aditya Dipankar, David Tappeser, Vyom Mehta, Tanya Goel, Tara Kelton.

Exhibition Design by Nisha Nair Gupta(Design Variable Studio) and Graphic Design by Arnav Sameer.

SOURCE: CONFLICTORIUM ARCHIVES