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In the Forests of the Night
December 8, 2023 @ 11:00 am - December 15, 2023 @ 7:00 pm IST
In the Forests of the Night, works by Tara Sabharwal (2014 – 2023) is a part of the third edition of Delhi Art Week. The exhibition takes off from this very enquiry of observing the process of creativity and abstraction that emerges from the subliminal. Psychologists employ the term to mean below the threshold of consciousness. A plane of being that absorbs all experiences, just as the way night absorbs all light or black absorbs all colour. A perceptive space that dissolves light and shadow into a mythic experience of the subliminal, that Leonard Mlodinow, an American theoretical physicist and mathematician, terms as the new unconsciousness.
Tara Sabharwal’s abstraction is a walk into the forests of the night, where the cognitive faculties are refined to suit more than one purpose. In the manner where the auditory, olfactory and tactile faculties chart the map of envisioning the way into the forest, that metaphorically represents the subliminal. Each of the series presented in the exhibition are mnemonic patterns bridging the worlds of the new unconsciousness to the conscious. Unlike abstraction that derives from minimizing nature/landscape, or an abstraction that is composed through the notations of sound and music, or an abstraction that reflects the memory of a place; Tara’s abstraction blurs all conscious attempts of reality and presents the invisible roots that governs conscious-visible existence.
Preview: Friday, 8th December, 2023 | 5PM-8PM
Exhibition on till: 15th December, 2023