'Moving Between Fixed and Flow': New exhibition in Delhi explores memory and landscape

Moving Between Fixed and Flow a solo exhibition by Delhibased visual artist Barkha Gupta brings together works exploring the relationship between memory landscape and the materiality of artistic expressionThe exhibition currently underway at Gallery Exhibit 320 also marks the launch of PLATFORMExhibit 320 a new initiative by the gallery dedicated to showcasing and supporting emerging artists from its rosterGuptas practice examines how places are experienced and remembered rather than simply documentedThe artworks in her latest exhibition were developed during her residency at Hampi Art Labs where she studied the landscape through selective observation focusing on texture repetition rhythm colour density light grids and interruptionsThese fragments form the basis of a visual memory that is subsequently reorganised through drawing Gupta describes the process as one of looking selecting and remembering rather than attempting to reproduce a landscape in its entiretyIn Moving Between Fixed and Flow this process extends into an exploration of the mark as an intervention on a surface Gupta draws a connection between the act of piercing a surface and the act of sowing or cultivationThis relationship has informed her recent engagement with embroidery where the stitch becomes both a mark and an intervention reads the description of the exhibitionHer exploration of textiles has also involved conversations with craft communities including experiments with dyeing and embroidery practices with the Banjara community they addedThe relationship between individual marks and larger structures is particularly evident in Guptas ceramic tiles Each tile functions as a small field or fragment of terrain retaining its own variations while contributing to a larger composition through repetitionThe resulting works bring together contrasting ideas of structure and flow repetition and variation and the mapped and the rememberedGupta born in 1995 is a Delhibased mixedmedia and visual artist whose practice explores identity memory belonging and spaceHer work has been exhibited at Tate Modern in London Apparao Galleries with The Art Platform Samukha Gallery in Bengaluru the KochiMuziris Biennale Student Biennale Art Alive and Pulp Society in New Delhi among other venuesThe exhibition will come to a close on November 30This story has been sourced from a third party syndicated feed agencies Midday accepts no responsibility or liability for its dependability trustworthiness reliability and data of the text Midday managementmiddaycom reserves the sole right to alter delete or remove without notice the content in its absolute discretion for any reason whatsoever