Inside Out

Site is a word as layered and complex as space, and can be defined as a concept itself. It’s like intuition, beyond the moral, philosophy or form of any kind, and yet individual for each and every one. To speak of site specificity is to acknowledge the multifariousness of the term, since there is no time when art has not been ‘sited'. Site and art have always been entangled as art inhabits spaces, creating dialogue with geography, history and community. The installations, termed so in the recent decades, are mere adoptions of arts of all times, preset to a concept, perceived in difference. Here,the exhibition is an attempt to create beyond concept, a gratis idea of what space reads to one.

Priyasri Art Gallery, an unorthodox gallery space, with three sides open to the sea, has varied
interpretations of the singular site, grasped without beholding any impression. One entire west facing wall of the gallery is exposed to the sun directly, has large French windows running to the full length of the gallery, which opens out to an uninterrupted view to the sea. Each participating artist has engaged with this singular site in some form for a period of time, allowing its atmosphere to shape their responses.

The exhibition, thus, is about unfolding the various dialogues between the artists, their art and the environment.