Images from the show at Lalit Kala , New Delhi |
For a full documentation, see
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'Before Crashing to Earth' can be seen as a proposition by
Mansi Trivedi to escape the personal and spatial entrapment of urbanity. We see
her stopping by and reworking fragile moments inspired from fungi, insect
nests, forgotten barks and such unnoticed marks. One can feel the artist
stopping by, watching, composing and preserving these fragile moments of beauty
in a personal exploration of the picturesque; possibly an intimate antidote to
the contemporary celebration of the spectacular. This body of works can be seen
as a collection of moments between such utopias and dystopias. There is a
deeply private, sensual exploration that one sees, privacy and sensuality become
visual metaphors hinting of her need to find fleeting zones of solace, rooting
her own journey. This engagement with organic, fragile beauty that surrounds
our everyday life, unnoticed, as we live our urban alienated lives, also capture
moments of tension, like pockets of utopia, threatened and on the brink of
destruction.
“My works are inventories of found objects and surfaces I stumble upon.
For these chosen works inspiration was chiefly drawn from the abstract sense of
nature, its unpredictability and the lurking chaos, both of which seem very
inviting. Almost as if it is nothing short of a visual poetry screaming to be
heard. Entwined in the multitude of scar's and scales, dead cells, pores and
scratches, there lies a fascinating story awaiting to be told in the endless
cycle of bloom and decay.”
– Mansi Trivedi
Trivedi, has been
dwelling on the connection between humans and their environment, the thin,
almost invisible state of interdependence and order that guides all transitions
of life. She feels that, these are important symbiotic interconnections that
are easily ignored today. In Before Crashing to Earth, she draws on that very
perception of the extraordinary in the ordinary, to come up with art that is as
reflective, as it is raw.
'Escape' can be a multi edged concept metaphor. It carries meanings
of finding alternatives, flying away, looking away, trying to protect one, and
finding space. This space is essential not just in the visuality of the moments
felt and rendered, but is essential for the studio process of the artist. She
likes to construct surfaces slowly, laboriously, sometimes in the same way
destroy them. The works in a way become a residue of this process of seeing,
hiding, masking, preserving, and destroying. Her interactions with the fragile
picturesque, before the world comes crashing to earth.