Date/Time
Date(s) - 08/03/2016 - 18/03/2016
10:00 am - 6:00 pm
Location
Alliance Française de Trivandrum
Categories
Women’s day special
Alterbodies
Installations
Recent works of Sajitha Shankar
8- 18 March
Inauguration on 8 March, 6.00pm
10- 6.00pm
@ Art Gallery, Alliance Française de Trivandrum
The exhibition will be inaugurated on 8 March at 6.00pm by Dr. J. Devika.
Alterbodies: An artistic term for the series of paintings coined by Sajitha Shankar, which evolves from her former series on autobiographical etchings of Childhood, Women and Reality, Women and Emancipation, In Search of Feminity, Women Archetypes, Mother Archetypes, etc. This series points to the metamorphosis of the artistic self, sieving through a series of experiential art : which is at once personal, delicate and fragile.
In Alterbodies , Sajitha has tried to revisit the sources of feminine generative power in Indian myths, folklores, rituals devotional streams, art and literature. Many paintings hinge on the autobiographical recesses as well, resulting in the inter connected flow of the multiplicity of selves in a fluid and dynamic mediation with each other.
According to Sajitha Shankar: “In Alterbodies, I hinged my own body as an artefact. From my previous Archetypal Series, I evolved into Alterbodies. I started the series with fleshless structures of skulls, bones and skeletal frames. In 2008, I started drawing a series of skulls, which was part of my own lighter form of existence. I fleshed out the skull with my own being by partizlly filling out
the eyes, ears and other sockets and cavities. From there , I progressed to a complete skeletal frame by fleshing out my face. Slowly I started fleshing out the skeletal structures of my limbs and other parts of my body as if an artistic and ritualistic trance.”
About the artist: Sajitha Shankar received her BFA degree from the Govt. College of Arts, Thiruvananthapuram., Kerala, after which, she worked at the Regional centre studios of the Lalit Kala Akademi in Chennai. Later, she lived and worked at the Cholamandal Artists’ Village for sixteen years. She was a member of the Lalit Kala Akademi, Kerala, for nine years, from 2002- 2011. She is the founder-director of an innovative centre for art, the Gowri Art Institute at Kallar in Kerala. Her works are permanently displayed (the Archetype series) at the National Gallery of Modern Arts, Bangalore.
Sajitha Shankar has held 27 solo shows of her works in many cities in India and abroad and her
works are kept in several prestigious galleries.
