Hinge

Curated by Shruti Ramlingaiah in collaboration with Priyasri Art Gallery, Hinge showcases the ever growing things around us that occupy our lives. Objects, commodity, machine, article, gadget, setup, accessory, belonging, instrument, setting, material are terms that define today’s social life i.e., accumulate, excess, correlate. They govern over our lives. These profusions embody subjectivities and an individual's environment, yet it connects between objects and humans.

Machines are everywhere these days but less visible. They don’t come predominant in size and are compact with smooth surfaces. They are evolving and overlapping, complex like all other tools. Mishap might distract or collapse the apparatus; yet, they continue to pivot on stories to hover in our lives.

The exhibition stresses on the feature of hinge. Quite literally a minuscule part of a machine or tool or rather, an anchor to unleash a cause for argument and condition. Dialectically, a transforming factor of a situation, twist in a moment, a character or fulcrum of a play, key that actuates to re-surface between physical lived spaces.

Dynamics this mechanism has; in objects of our everyday life to how we navigate and how we perform ritual, intact setting as well as temporal. An agency cannot go overlooked. The hinge can be a thing as well as a method allowing oscillation between things: to derive possibilities and probe a stereotype, belief, ideal and real, reality and truth.

The exhibition titled Hinge gathers four artists - Digbijayee Khatua, Diptej Vernekar, Lokesh Khodke and Roshan Chabbaria whose practice and approaches they have adopted responds to pivot off at varied ends between social context and personal spaces in their representation. The works in this exhibition challenge manifold values, obvious unrest that align narratives of momentary deposits.