Gallery Dotwalk presents, Amjum Rizve’s debut solo exhibition, which invites the viewers to some key sites in and around Kannur in northern Kerala, places that the artist grew up around and have left a mark on him. These include the precincts of local mosques, dargahs, sacred groves, kabristans, and paddy fields. Each of these frames has been subjected to a treatment that elevates its otherwise ordinary setting into something epiphanic. What results are highly ornamental tableaus straight out of a surreal dream.
Ornamentation, as one might imagine, is not merely a romantic take on the orthodox landscapes inhabited by the artist. In Rizve’s hands, ornamentation becomes a meditative technique through which the mundane is revealed in scintillating detail.
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