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T. V. SANTHOSH
Hundred Square Feet of Curses
油彩 畫布
2005年作
簽名:T.V. Santhosh
來源:
佳士得香港拍賣 2007年5月27日 編號509
現藏者購自上述拍賣
出版:
2008年 N. Adajania and B. Parthan著 《T. V. Santhosh: Unresolved Stories 2004-2007》孟買 印度 (圖版,第75頁及124頁)

《Hundred Square Feet of Curses》 (Lot 504) 是一方密而不亂的組圖,佈滿了隱喻和當今社論。它帶有T. V. Santhosh藝術風格的一大特色 – 對攝影底片的充分運用,而底片的倒影恰好反映出作品的背景和意義。藝術家竭力在他的作品內呈現歷史上一直存在的不公平和暴力狀況,並擴闊與主題有關的領域。畫的標題指的是暴力受害者入住的康復營, 特別是那些經歷過印度古吉拉特邦的高德拉市暴亂的受害者。根據藝術家所描述,作品隱喻了這些受害者所身處的困境,他們臨時居住的窄窄空間,觀者都能感覺到其中的不祥和壓迫感。《Hundred Square Feet of Curses》只是當下一幕更大的混沌裡的冰山一角。觀者被迫與畫面中心的一雙巨靈大手對話,它可是在掩藏而保護記憶所創造的傷痕。那雙牽動觀者視覺神經的手,因看不見是誰的,而可以被理解成是任何人的手。藝術家透過此諷刺性的視覺效果,將一幅現成的畫作歸入社會論文的範圍來解讀,探討現代社會裡個人的脆弱和易墮落的傾向。
來源
Christie's Hong Kong Sale, May 27, 2007, Lot 509
Acquired from the above sale by the present owner
出版
N. Adajania and B. Parthan, T. V. Santhosh: Unresolved Stories 2004-2007, Mumbai, 2008 (illustrated, p. 75, p. 124).

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Hundred Square Feet of Curses (Lot 504) is an uncluttered composition replete with metaphors and social commentaries. It utilizes a photographic image in its negative state, which has come to characterize the style of T. V. Santhosh, and this inversion of the image contributes to the context and meaning of the work. Within his oeuvre, the artist grapples with the presence of injustice and violence in history allowing his subjects a much wider sphere of reference. The title refers to rehabilitation camps for victims of violence, specifically in connection with the riots of Godhra, Gujurat. As noted by the artist, the work indirectly refers to the narrow temporary sheds where victims lived with terrible memories of violent acts and the viewer is able to get a sense of ominous looming. Hundred Square Feet of Curses is only a glimpse of a much larger and ambiguous, though immediate, occurrence. The viewer is forced into a dialogue with the hands of an unspecified individual, rendered universal. These are clearly the hands of someone, but, in looking, the viewer cannot recognize any one person, but everyone. Via such visual irony, the artist creates a pictorial treatise on the fragile and potentially corruptible state of an individual in modern society.

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