Chatterjee & Lal presents, Man in the Middle stand vis-à-vis Nityan Unnikrishnan’s earlier work? There’s less carnage, more breakage. Less apocalyptic howl, more eerie silence.
In 2020, Nityan made a painting of a bedroom: the woman tangled asleep in the sheets, the man perched at the edge of the bed in a brown study of what looks like post-coital melancholia. On the walls of this room are two paintings: one a carnival of creatures in a multitude of contortions, the other a sober domestic scene in which a man (is it the same man?) sits at his desk, a woman at the edge of a sofa behind him, holding her head (is it a migraine attack or just everyday despair?). Paintings within paintings on the walls of the house in the painting titled, ‘The House Tilts’.
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