'Afterglow’ Yokohama Triennale

‘Afterglow’ responds to urbanization and industrialization in India. The exhibition brings together kinetic installation, metal sculpture, video installation followed by sense of expression by working class people.  

Breath in the air and toxic enter, soil, dust, wind, metal, salt, skin, sculpture, mercury, lead. They all reorder the world. Toxin the pollutant becomes part of life but remains indigestible, people who work on this edge of lining, know its physicality. They encounter its violence, they grasp its difficulty and they confront the deep hardened cruelty of Indic civilization that has no thought on the threshold between life and toxicity other than banishment. Mutualist eyes assert this cannot last, the ground shifts, alongside a tape runs a conversation between a machine, a siren and a mosquito. The machine and siren come to the artist by recordings made by his father and inheritance from some long gone. The mosquito is of his time. Entire energy engage and transform not just each other’s but also that of many others.