Images of the People and the Rhetoric of Images

Aparna Roy Baliga

How can one write about Bosnia, Biafra, Bangladesh, just to take only the atrocities that began with B…… – Bosnia by A.K. Ramanujan

The forms of violence had been commoditized in the present art scene; there is a construal of an aesthetic of violence which has become consumable. There lies the seduction of creating a set iconography; a predictable pattern of visuals talking about violence. The scene seems to be exhausted for K. K .Muhammed. He tries to overcome the apparent seduction of violence and travels in the space in between. Images and their affect become an important part of his practice. His paintings speak of disjunctured and disjointed times. Violence in its various forms becomes the working principle for Muhammed.