Abundance of sensory cues at Auroville art expo

With her caller exhibition, Auroville-based installation creator Ok Jeong Lee organises a walk-through of twilight portion of sorts filled with an abundance of sensory stimuli; akin to navigating a disorientating, dim-lit transition earlier that grateful re-embracing of light.

Lee’s ‘In the Middle and After’ expo is hosted by the Centre d’Art successful Auroville.

Visitors locomotion done agelong strips of cut-up vines made from scraps near implicit from the manufacture of COVID masks. As you crook a corner, the visitant discovers sculptural objects, silky paintings, metallic flowers, hybrid creatures, and unusual totems embedded successful the cloth vegetation.

The way ends, and 1 emerges into a bright, immense space. Hundreds of compact discs signifier sparkling rivers connected the ground, an unfastened and refreshing sea. The creator has scattered the abstraction with benches and seats, each of which are playful and colourful works of art: transparent suitcases for clip travellers, woven chairs, and cloud-like foam cushions. Recycled materials talk of important themes, specified arsenic memory, the organisation of beingness and the environment, and the anticipation for a much spiritual future.

“As successful the fairy tales of your childhood, you locomotion forward, torn betwixt apprehension and wonder, successful the dim airy of a wood that filters retired the airy of the extracurricular world,” says Dominique Jacques who has curated the show.

According to the Centre d’Art, Lee’s installation is simply a metaphor for the succession of unprecedented crises facing the world, a authorities of imperishable disruption with nary evident extremity successful sight. It explores the capableness of humans, arsenic transitional beings, to germinate and look a process of translation towards caller realities, emphasising the acquisition of surviving a concern from wrong alternatively than observing it from the outside.

In this respect, it echoes the ‘Relational Aesthetics’ theorised by French creation historiographer Nicolas Bourriaud, according to whom works of art, beyond their signifier oregon style, lend to creating caller inter-human relationships and a caller sensibility.

Lee, a nonmigratory of Auroville since 2008, began her upcycling task successful 2011, pursuing much than 25 years of enactment arsenic a manner decorator successful Korea. She explores upcycling arsenic some an creator and societal practice, honouring discarded materials arsenic carriers of representation and transformation.

Through workshops and exhibitions successful France and India, she has shared the doctrine of upcycling arsenic a mode of life.

The expo is connected till February 11 (Tuesday done Friday 2 p.m. to 5.30 p.m. and Saturday 10 a.m. to 2.30 p.m. and from 2 p.m. to 5.30 p.m.)