Vasudha Kapadia
The Wall
Synthetic Landscapes
‘I like life a lot’
Emotions: as shown by WhatsApp
Between rocks, silence and safety
Out of Sight emerges from alternative exercises of using drawing as a form of immediate recording. The show is a constellation of works engaging with the acts of drawing, mark making, and appropriation from sources of popular media.
The narratives, loosely centred around tools of technology and landscapes, take their cues from the act of photography and translate it into the slower process of drawing. Drawing, as an unpacking of a lived experience, then becomes a ground for the real and fictional to co-exist. The artist intervenes in the images—drawn from the everyday, culture, and media—through the play of paint and material. In contrast to the layered and detailed way of painting, visual design and text engage in play and obviousness, as illustrations of context.
The process is marked by a deep synchrony between thinking and doing. The works have a critical and personal approach to the subject matter, oscillating between abandoning the tools of technology and embracing them at the same time.
Trees hugging trees
Sumi ink and gold mica on half raw ripe xuan paper
34 cm x 68 cm
Details
Pedestrain
Chalk on board displayed as photographs in accordion fold
20 cards
9.2 cm x 6.4 cm
Autocorrect
Print on paper
6.7 cm x 57 cm
Design: Vama Gupta
49 most beautiful landscapes in the world
Print on paper
A2 poster
Design: Vama Gupta
Out of Sight (Solo) at Material, Zurich, CH (2024)
In support with Index Freiraum
This foundation project is implemented by India Foundation of the Arts (IFA) under the Arts Practice Program,
made possible with Sony Pictures Entertainment Fund.
Photo: Oliver Rico