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Lot Essay
"One looks at the world through the tinted spectacles of news reports that unroll the stories of massacres of innocents, spectacular highlights of explosions, flux of faces of people who make headlines, spitting the words of hate and arrogance and the kinds of propaganda campaigns that just struggle to hide nothing but truth. It is a strange world exposed and manipulated. A world where, one does not know who the real enemy is, yet 'terror' is the common word for both those who resist and those who attack.
It is one's extended vision that constructs and reshapes the perceptions of the 'present'. And it is riddled with a number of eternal questions and a couple of ready-made yet elusive solutions, which I am interested with. It is the touch and smell of the 'present' I am dealing with in my works, in a process to find a solution, where the praxis of language becomes one with the perceptions of reality.
More recently, I have been appropriating in my works the logic of turning a positive photographic image into its negative. Negative images evoke the inverse aspects of the phenomena. As certain elements get deleted and become unrecognizable, they reveal an event's hidden implications. In the process, the elements of 'local' lose their specificity, attaining instead a universal significance and vice versa. Marking a shift from my earlier paintings and its linguistic concerns, which dealt with a world as seen through the pages of history that tells its stories through the images of metaphors, my recent works deal with the kind of devised 'glimpses' of much larger, unresolved stories of immediate happenings." - T. V. Santhosh
It is one's extended vision that constructs and reshapes the perceptions of the 'present'. And it is riddled with a number of eternal questions and a couple of ready-made yet elusive solutions, which I am interested with. It is the touch and smell of the 'present' I am dealing with in my works, in a process to find a solution, where the praxis of language becomes one with the perceptions of reality.
More recently, I have been appropriating in my works the logic of turning a positive photographic image into its negative. Negative images evoke the inverse aspects of the phenomena. As certain elements get deleted and become unrecognizable, they reveal an event's hidden implications. In the process, the elements of 'local' lose their specificity, attaining instead a universal significance and vice versa. Marking a shift from my earlier paintings and its linguistic concerns, which dealt with a world as seen through the pages of history that tells its stories through the images of metaphors, my recent works deal with the kind of devised 'glimpses' of much larger, unresolved stories of immediate happenings." - T. V. Santhosh