Shrine Empire presents a solo exhibition titled Duration, featuring the works of Ranjana Thapalyal. In Ranjana Thapalyal’s practice, the various manifestations of time – as eternal, ephemeral, incidental and durational – accumulate as residue and trace. The linearity of industrial time is set aside to privilege the fluidity of its experience and its qualitative dimensions, the ways in which they appear and disappear against the vast abyss of endlessness. Rather than measure, Thapalyal’s process collaborates with the various materials that she frequently engages with, allowing moments in their instantaneous and cumulative forms to emerge with agency that at times surpasses artistic intention. In this ceding she confirms our inability to encompass and frame time, which by leaving its incidental marks upon many of her works, becomes a co-author.
Find out more about the show here.