Above : I’m standing in entrance of a portray by artist Gigi Scaria.
This was my first time visiting Bhavna Kakkar’s artwork gallery known as Latitude 28, which is positioned on the colloquially known as The Artwork District at Lado Sarai, New Delhi.
Traversing The Noosphere
Diptej Vernekar | Gigi Scaria | Noor Ali Chagani | Niyeti Chadha Kannal
In his e-book The Biosphere and The Noosphere, Vladimir Vernadsky elaborated on the Noosphere as a brand new evolutionary stage within the growth of the Biosphere when the human-and-nature interplay could be consciously balanced.
In his projection of the long run he thought of the emergence of the Noosphere as a vital evolutionary step wanted for preserving and reconstructing the Biosphere within the curiosity of humanity as a single entity. In our time of environmental disaster and deep rooted uncertainty concerning the future, Vernadsky’s optimistic premise of the Noosphere could seem to be a stark distinction to the zeitgeist of the up to date period, the place collective consciousness is peppered with critique on a solely anthropocentric worldview and the environmental hazards of mankind’s exercise.
We reside at a really particular time within the historical past of humanity – a time of growing ecological disaster the place our survival because the human race is threatened by the development of local weather change and depletion of pure sources. The Noosphere, as Vernadksy thought of it, envelops the world as a sphere of thought that has emerged as a consequence of the growing complexity of human consciousness, a pure end result of organic phenomenon. The existence of the sphere is indeniable, but its nature and consequence for humanity is an exploratory angle of Traversing The Noosphere.
This exhibition calls consideration to views on the unprecedented charge of human growth of our instances, our quickly evolving relationship with the world round us and our altering sense of self in relation to the pure world.
Noor Ali Chagani
Noor Ali Chagani creates works, composed of hand-made miniature terracotta bricks to exhibit his distinctive take as a sculptor on the custom of miniature portray. His work revolves across the idea of the absence of residence; his quest for a private house that he can name his personal. On a really private degree, Chagani feels that bricks are a symbolic manner for him to hook up with the remainder of the world. His brick works additionally exhibit a fascination with the symbolic energy of colossal partitions, which connote silence and power. In distinction, Chagani additionally works with the concept of self-comparison with partitions, as obstructive, stagnant objects.
Gigi Scaria
Gigi Scaria’s collection of works, ‘Consolation Zone’, is harking back to the continual tussle between nature and people to create a contemporary city panorama. There has all the time been a debate on human consolation and the worth we pay for that consolation. Cities have been constructed and sustained by the logic of prosperity and a simple way of life. The depletion of pure sources and the environmental disasters pressure us to take a look at trendy life and cities by way of a brand new prism. A prism, which is able to straighten a lot of our distorted views. By means of his portray Scaria creates absurdist environments of the long run, difficult the human psyche and its relationship with trendy progress. He explores the problem of non-belonging and unsettlement in his works.
Niyeti Chadha Kannal
Niyeti Chadha Kannal’s works, in some ways are a direct final result of lens based mostly wanderings into the spectacular labyrinths of rising metropolises like New York, London and Bangalore in addition to renderings on paper of the prospect materialisations of architectural monstrosities encountered by the flaneur on the unholy intersections of disparate supplies, sensibilities and instances. What shines by way of the works of the Bangalore-based artist Niyeti Chadha Kannal is a seek for the elusive and the visionary within the slowly-yet-surely transitioning purlieus of our city landscapes.
Diptej Vernekar
Diptej Vernekar is all in favour of exploring the connection between objects, his environment, the house and nature which is in a relentless state of flux. His work brings collectively fragments of those disconnected verses, stitching them collectively into visible poems. The present physique of drawings revolves across the weathering of ideas, the place summary recollections get amassed and translate into obscure species and the way magnificence and its contradiction co-exist, creating an environment of its personal.
The “Traversing The Noosphere” exhibit is on until the final week of August. In case you are driving your self to the situation, it is possible for you to to search out parking in direction of the Saket finish of the interior street and you’ll have to stroll roughly 200 meters at finest. Carry an umbrella should you’re going now. In case you’re in a cab / have a driver, they’ll have the ability to drop you proper in entrance of the gallery however be ready for some site visitors. You may be climbing one flight of stairs to the viewing house.
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