Students' Biennale 2021: Silent Yet Not Peaceful
Artists: Nandini Talukdar, Mrinal Das and Suman Das. Curated by Adip Dutta.
Pandemic Alienation
Nandini Talukdar, Mrinal Das and Suman Das have created images marked with the absence of human figures to reflect rumination on situations of crises.
Social distancing 3 by Suman DasKochi-Muziris Biennale
Stillness is just not a state of being..
Social distancing 2 by Suman DasKochi-Muziris Biennale
..but also remains in the gaze that falls upon things under scrutiny.
Outsider by Suman DasKochi-Muziris Biennale
The brooding nature of such human emotions is loaded with anxiety.
Afternoon by Suman DasKochi-Muziris Biennale
It remains as an undercurrent in Suman's images.
New dawn by Suman DasKochi-Muziris Biennale
Embedded in a silence that is disturbing in nature..
Epidemic by Mrinal DasKochi-Muziris Biennale
Vulnerabilities of both, labour and the onlookers merge here in the visual quote on migratory labours.
Stacked by Mrinal DasKochi-Muziris Biennale
These themes lie camouflaged in ordinary objects and usual spaces.
Camouflaged 2 by Nandini TalukdarKochi-Muziris Biennale
Nandini's painted visions of solitary figures in isolation...
Camouflaged 1 by Nandini TalukdarKochi-Muziris Biennale
..express some of the heartbreaking imageries we were exposed to during the pandemic.
The Students’ Biennale seeks to complement and strengthen the fine arts education system in India and is the largest educational initiative of the Kochi Biennale Foundation. The fourth edition was led by a team of five artists and art educators – Adip Dutta, Archana Hande, Manoj Vyloor, Suresh K Nair and Vasudha Thozhur, and featured 314 student artists from over 62 education institutions across India to produce approximately 45 projects.
Compiled and Edited by Mala Yamey
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