Catalogue Design, Print, Production for AMINO SOUP : SAVIA MAHAJAN: SCULPTURES AND DRAWINGS @tarqmumbai .
On view till 30th December 2023
The show builds on the themes of resurgence and materiality that have been central to Mahajan’s practice from the very start. In a new series of the artist’s signature ceramic books, titled Pietra, the artist uses fire and rocks to symbolize external pressures, looking at how things that were once stagnant are forced out of their inertia into a state of change that eventually leads to their evolution. The series Emergency old longing finds its roots in Mahajan’s works from 2019 such as Liminal, but this time the rust and white colours of the work speak about an urgency to move from one state to the other. The abstract, surreal, and often weird forms are indicative of being tied down, but now bursting out to become something more.
The most recent, and central work of the show, Pillars of creation is created with Ashok Siju, a young Indigo master who comes from a lineage of weavers in the Vankar community of Bhujodi village in Kutch, Gujarat. Made in high-fired porcelain, the work is dyed in natural Indigo in his traditionally fermented vats. The work examines ideas of constant creation and destruction, shedding and emerging.
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