The Full Space
Paramjot Walia
The exhibition titled ‘The Full Space’ offers an alternative perspective and encourages the viewer to open his mind and experience the ‘formless form’ outside and beyond the physical presence of form and space, Paramjot Walia reviews.
Art Heritage gallery witnessed the metamorphosis of life disguised in monochrome colors and delicate thread-like lines.‘The Full Space’ showcases video, painted, the still, the moving and the inverted image and goes beyond the physical space to accomplish the imagery expression that agrees with the artist’s aesthetic pursuit and her innate self. Kavita Jaiswal gave colors the liberty and freedom to choose their path, moulding, re- moulding themselves into ‘formless’ forms as they continue their stable yet insecure journey of life. As colours dry and freeze time and create an image,its not just the final result but the impressions left,the scars created that helped it to emerge, blend, and continue giving it a new identity. Wherever it chooses to stagnate forms the blueprint of its life. Kavita Jaiswal renders a spiritual pulse to her canvassed space, answering the complexity of life through her understanding of the philosophy of shunya – emptiness, void, openness, spaciousness, vacuity,the untamed infinite. Her works explore the existence of being, embracing both nothingness and completeness, the fragility of state, and change defining every moment forming the ‘full space’. The movement and the twirls in her still canvases and photographs reflect the fluidity of memory, replacing the past with the present, mocking the notion of permanence. The imperfections of the past and the vulnerability of the future stand and stare helplessly as the works seize the continuous scuffle between memory(past) and the future and forces the viewer to accept the moment and live in the present.
Kavita Jaiswal uses the aesthetics of abstract to focus on theinterdependency of nature and matter. The works are an attempt to relate nature and humans. Explaining the fascinating juxtaposition of black with whitecanvases,the artist responds, “Out of the black is born a new life; the white exists because of this void. Each depends upon the other for it’s existence. Both black and white depend on grey to manifest. It is in the grey that their infinite configurations can be seen. But here, the grey too cannot boast of being the reason for black and white to exist for it is because of them that grey’s existence is possible.” The exhibition invokes the consciousness of lines, using it as a metaphor to experience the oriental philosophy of continual evolvement. The gyrations and the reflections in light merging tones of blue and green enhance the softness and charm and create a hypnotising underwater universe. These works act as delicate sketches inviting the viewer to respond. The artist delivers a layered
dimension to these works, successfully maintaining the balance between giving solidity to an abstract piece and discovering the elements of intangibility. Her canvases and photographs act as a moving narrative within the closed space which emulates music and breathes nature in its true form.
