Non-material
Salvatore Arnone Angelica Chavarro Almo Megha Joshi
Paintings Works on Paper Mixed Media
Salvatore Arnone Although photography remains Arnone's primary form of expression, the artist begins to see certain limitations in this medium when it comes to adequately depicting his altered and often dreamlike vision of reality. In this series, photography is combined with various techniques (pastel, acrylic, pencil, etc.) to represent the duality of the objective/subjective, the real and the imaginary.
ONE Series : 1612, 2074 and. 0835.
Angelica Chavarro The works produced under the name Sacred Duality are inspired by recognizing the impermanent nature of all things and being aware that nothing is static. Appreciating that continuous transformation is inherent to evolution and contemplating that impermanence is one of the most profound contemplative practices.
Sagrada Dualidad Series: Sagrada Dualidad I and Sagrada Dualidad II
Almo Whether they are symbols, dreams or marks of the life of each of us. The artist's work often features heads, floating bodies, trees, dollar signs, cars, laurel branches, and symbolic elements that denounce the cruelties of our borders. Almo executes his drawings intuitively in these acrylic paintings, aiming for a state of ' semi-trance' as he himself defines his process.
Prussian Blue Series: Prussian Blue Movement #2, #5, #3, #4, and #1
Megha Joshi Using thousands of Diya-Baati/cotton wicks, a ritual material, the Samsara series are works using repetitive action - like the cycle of repetition in human life. Joshi highlights the philosophical aspects of Hinduism and critiques the redundant rituals.
The Ritual series Samsara IV
The red series are vermilion drawings with cotton/diya baati wicks used in prayer, the fruit of the artist's longstanding preoccupation with gender, religion and rituals. The interference of politics and religion with the female body as a site of worship has long disturbed her. Especially in India, the female body as a place of “honor” is a concept the artist explores. The continuing taboos around menstruation, temple entries, rape in communal riots, hypersexualization and the suppression of the female body are, in her view, issues that require attention. The drawings revolve around the labeling of women as midwives and breeders or sluts and whores; pure and impure, mine and hers, etc. For the artist misogyny is deeply rooted in India and we have to dig deep if we want to eradicate it.
The Red series: XII, XIII, XIV, XV, XVI, and XVII.
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