Praneet Soi :
For and Against Narrative
Vadehra Art Gallery

For and Against Narrative emerges from a conversation the artist posits between the constructed image and the gestural. Having immersed himself for years in working with media imagery, he shifts back to the hand in this new body of work to rethink political praxis. It is a detour, designed not to create a hierarchy but to question the countless communications and exchanges that punctuate the space between. Earlier this year Soi was awarded a residency at the Mondriaan Foundation’s Pompgemaal Atelier in Huisduinen. The cold winter light of Northern Netherlands inspired Soi to use silverpoint, marking the return of the landscape to his oeuvre. The process of silverpoint is irreversible and forces the hand to respond to the vista in a very particular way. The artist approaches the landscape as a motif, a tradition that traces its lineage to that of landscape painting from Santiniketan in Bengal.

Date: Till 29 October, 2016
Venue: D-40 Defence Colony, New Delhi 110024
Timings: : Monday – Saturday, 11:00 A.M – 07:00 P.M
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