Exhibition on memory, emotions and politics continues in Lalitpur — Kathmandu Post
The exhibition MADE IN MIND Series III: Narratives of the Contemporary is continuing at Mcube Gallery in Lalitpur, Nepal. In it, 15 artists give physical form to thoughts, memories, dreams and fantasies. The exhibition will run until September 21, and admission is free, reports Kathmandu Post.
Personal experience in the works
Nirvita Shakya’s installation Somethingness is composed of fragments of traditional clothing in bright colors and patterns. They create a cave-like space that the artist conceived as a box or room inside the mind. Shakya associates colors with different emotions and life experiences.
In Kapil Mani Dixit’s work The Open Cage, a red sofa is surrounded by open cages. According to the author’s concept, the sofa symbolizes power, while the cages represent restrictions that people can find themselves in because of their own thoughts and dreams.
Bijay Maharjan’s work Resonance of the Earth draws on his personal memories, pain and lived experiences. The scars on the human figure, according to the artist, reflect his own experience, while the figure’s pose conveys hope for moving forward.
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Power, electricity and the future
Curator Manish Lal Shrestha presented In Search of the Diamond, a composition of playing cards and a diamond fixed in a window. The placement of large cards next to smaller ones may refer to political hierarchies and power games, while the diamond may refer to the search for a better future.
Kaushal Joshi’s installation The Maze is dedicated to the years of electricity shortages in Nepal. The lamps in the work resemble a small village: one part is illuminated, while the other remains dark. Joshi believes that this crisis was artificial and arose from the abuse of power.
The exhibition also features Roshan Mishra’s Deforming Thoughts Part of #365rotation, a work using plastic buckets and deformed clay forms about changes in society, and Sanjiv Maharjan’s In Tatva: Forms of Water and Air. In the latter work, blue represents water, while golden eye-like forms represent air.
