"These are artists who talk about the real issues of India like labour, gender inequality and secularism through their works," says artist-activist Prabhakar Kamble, who has curated the show of six Ambedkarite artists, including Singh and Yadav, at the art fair.Ĭonfectionery company Cadbury has a booth at the India Art Fair for the first time this year to aid its campaign to use digital art by children for contributing to the charity, Save the Children. "I collected used potato sacks from Varanasi for the work," says Singh whose installation is a reminder of the labour of essential workers during the pandemic along with other emergency services.Īnshu Singh's work on labour (Photo by Faizal Khan)īirender Kumar Yadav, another emerging artist, uses terracotta to create tools workers handle in brick kilns in Mirzapur near Varanasi. Anshu Singh, an MFA in textile design from Benares Hindu University, Varanasi, has created life jackets from jute to portray the labour of people who carry potato sacks on their back.
Some artists have put labour, the central element of creativity, on focus. We expect a wider group of visitors with diverse abilities this year," says Mumbai-based access consultant Siddhant Shah. "Accessibility and inclusion is becoming more and more integrated with the larger planning of the fair. This year, the art fair, for the first time, has sign language art walks every day at 4 pm. "The viewing protocol will change."Īccessibility to art is undergoing changes too. "Even if one is painting a flower or tree using technology, the meanings of life one wants to convey won't change, but they can get another dimension," explains Kaleka. Technology is aiding artists in expression without altering their basic practices. Ranbir Kaleka's 'Breath' (Photo by Faizal Khan) In this video, the ambience sound is composed of I can't breathe, the words of American Eric Garner choked to death by police in 2014, pollution, and the sound of pain, torture, sneezing, cough, ambulance siren and even hiccups," he adds about his new work, sponsored by creative online platform, MASH, which explores the intersections of art, craft, design, architecture and fashion. Breath formed the basis for the Black Lives Matter movement. "In many languages around the world, the word for breath and soul is the same. "After Covid-19 pandemic, breath has been so much on our consciousness," says Kaleka. Kaleka's work on multiple monitors uses video to bring breath to the still images of a painted body. Artist Ranbir Kaleka, whose major works combine painting and video projection, articulates the meaning of polysemous (a word meaning the co-existence of many possible meanings of a word) in his digital artwork, Breath.
Works about words and language abound at the art fair this year. Desai is part of three artists from Mumbai, Pune and Kolkata brought together by Apple to create a digital residency hub at the India Art Fair this year. In Desai's work, code-generated art is derived using hand-drawn animation, sound synthesis and 3-D LiDAR (light, detection and ranging) scanning. Multidisciplinary artist and electronic musician Varun Desai's digital installation at the art fair, is titled Dimorphism, a word which means existence of two distinct types of individuals in the same species. Glory days to graveyard: The story of north Delhi's Coronation Park
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