The Guild Art Gallery is pleased to present Inner Vision, a multi-media group show curated by Shubhalakshmi Shukla.

 

During the present times of high urbanization, human beings have tried their best to bestow all their knowledge and establish a compatible relationship with nature. Yet, so indignant has been the results at times, that one may doubt about the systems of knowledge which apparently control and shape nature according to one’s need.

 

Romantics framed nature as wild, violent, destructive, and irrational, as well as protective, awe-inspiring and sublime. They considered nature the supreme force against the logical and reasonable human mind and worshipped its primordial qualities. Artists chose to establish a relationship of Supreme Being and, simultaneously, of oneness with nature, replacing God. This may happen while engaging with the materials which appear to build on repetitive action like hand- stitching, knitting or washing and yet constructs a paradoxical imagery. This conversion is also observed as an inner vision while one draws a metamorphosing relationship with the material world

 

The experiences of highly rational form of societies have led us to question and establish the relationship with nature in a renewed fashion. Inner Vision is an attempt to observe how artists address their connection to this primordial substance in terms of representation of their five senses or the philosophic execution of their forms.