Mirror/Maze: echoes of song, space and spectre

Curated by Roobina Karode (Director and Chief Curator, KNMA) with Avijna Bhattacharya, Debashree  Banerjee, Madhurima Chaudhuri and Agastaya Thapa, the exhibition allows the viewers to engage a wide spectrum of artistic experiences, from drawing, paintings and sculptures to digital presences, AI and computer generated images and computer coded hyper realities. This exhibition owes its stimulus to artists and the provocations they present through their distinctive forms of practice, initiating a re-thinking about art and its presence in our lives. Their self-willed journeys draw us into the worlds they create through ‘affect states’ of sound and silence, meditation and labour, stillness and action, emptiness and fullness; at times, taking us to the edge. Disrupting the sense of space/place, de-stabilising the notion of a fixed image, accelerating and slowing down the experience of time, they raise our consciousness towards the complicatedness of the everyday along with the lingering fear of the unknown.