Threshold Art Gallery presents Trans-formative Vision, a group show that focuses on the strong figurative tradition which has empowered the form for centuries in India is transformed by artists in the present to express contemporary reality as well as their inner landscape. The twists and turns of the body, articulated in earlier times by the tribhanga posture with its axial bends, is now used as a sensor to navigate their exploding internal and surrounding realities. The immediate and powerful impact of the human figure with its mobile visage conveys the conundrum of existence in the country with its immense contrast of the rich and the destitute, the immobilisation of the disinherited and the patriarchal tone and tenor of life which marginalises the other half. It has been stated that the embodiment of multiple realities is contained by the form which is the strongest conveyer of many pluralistic situations. The figure with its subtle manifestations and its vivid countenance also retains the possibility of change and growth. It could be said that this strong structural tradition in the country with its overarching legacy of the past is empowered and reconfigured to convey the turbulent as well as the complex experience of the present. The aura of the body makes the space around it alter and transforms the prevailing situation.
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