Fibre of Our Lives

FIBRE OF OUR LIVES a group show of 8 senior contemporary artists of India curated by Pranamita Borgohain and Gallery Art Positive to explore the fibre or fabric as their medium of art in their own distinguished style and technique. 

 

Fibre of our Lives brings in a range of artists who have worked with textile as a medium to explore its various connotations and facades. It brings in different perspectives of usage of fabric or thread to demonstrate the vitality of the medium as a metaphor of our lives.

 

Eminent Artists featuring in the show are Ankon Mitra, Gopika Nath, Jagannath Panda, Paula Sengupta, Pranati Panda, Puneet Kaushik, Rahul Jain and Gunjan Arora and Subodh Kerkar who would be showcasing one of their finest works.

 

Artists believe textiles are also known to have their association with the skin and to the sense of touch, a sense which is actively encountered through the making of textiles by hand. Customarily, a cloth would have passed on through many different hands from the maker to the wearer highlighting the human connection. The process of weaving also helps us to understand the working of the universe, the world and how we are woven into it. 

 

The exhibition offers an insight into the versatility of contemporary art practice inspired by textiles, weaving and embroidery techniques, or interpreting the aesthetic of fabric and its possibilities as a medium of art. Through this exhibition, the Gallery hope to open avenues of expression and acknowledge artists as they continue to share newer vision of aesthetics.