Architecture of Remembering art exhibition in Thiruvananthapuram explores the dynamics of urban existence

Architecture of Remembering creation exhibition, presently connected show astatine the Alliance Française de Trivandrum, explores the impressions near by radical crossed “sites, objects and structures” arsenic they interact with 1 another. The exhibition, featuring the works of Bengaluru-based artists Philippe Calia and Supriyo Manna, curated by Tak Contemporary, portrays the ever-evolving tapestry of municipality existence.

The showcase combines the enactment of Supriyo, whose pieces are predominantly made from recovered materials, and Philippe, who uses exertion to papers his observations.

The accumulation opens with Cloud Atlas by Philippe, a bid of outer images of mining sites crossed the globe presented arsenic cyanotypes, a benignant of photographic printing that does not usage cameras. There are snapshots from Australia, Tanzania, the USA, South Africa and Armenia.

The creator created this enactment during the lockdown. “I could not spell retired to marque images. I was compelled to enactment with what was available. The convenient happening was to browse the satellite connected Google Earth. What funny maine were these ponds adjacent mining sites, which are man-made structures wherever discarded is stored. Initially, I had nary thought what they were, and was awestruck by their size and colours.”

Another 1 of his works, Praxis du Souvenir, is simply a diptych displayed successful a darkroom. One portion of the installation is the photograph of Philippe’s member with their parent astatine a formation successful France successful 1977, and the different is simply a acceptable of photographs of the aforesaid locale taken betwixt 2016 and 2019. For the exhibition, helium destroyed photos with chemicals and recorded their degradation and dismantling. These photographs were past stitched successful reverse order. When 1 forms a discernible shape, the contents of the different disappear. “I americium funny successful that moment, wherever an representation ceases to beryllium a practice of thing you tin place with,” helium says.

In The Bodyguard Lane Album, Phillepe documents the migrant settlers of the eponymous thoroughfare successful Mumbai. “The families came from Gujarat successful the aboriginal ‘50s. It was touching to spot those household photographs with the thoroughfare arsenic the backdrop, wherever Bodyguard Lane had go a home. We were connected the streets with cars passing america by; it felt similar we were successful someone’s surviving room”

In the enactment Nest of an Urban Ploceidae, Supriyo looks astatine the beingness of migrant labourers successful Bengaluru. The creator labels them arsenic agents of alteration successful the city, yet they bash not person a spot to live. “They make informal settlements successful the city. I tried to make a memoir oregon remembrance of those informal structures done this work.” Nest... is made of achromatic acid-free insubstantial chopped into bladed strips woven into a cubicle. “The delicate grounds is simply a reminder of however we tin make a fragile nest retired of space, which speaks astir these informal settlements.”

Another 1 of Supriyo’s works, Anatomy of a Dead Garden, presents the “skeletal remains of a vanished plot erased by municipality development”. The grounds represents a plot that was destroyed to physique a autobus presumption successful Bengaluru. “I collected 1 cut-down tree, created a mould of it and formed it with tracing papers, which are recovered materials from blueprint shops. I conscionable took those discarded negatives, which transportation the existent information of structures built astir the city.”

The papers are stitched unneurotic with hair, depicting the fragiility of human-made structures. “From our position of development, it is precise factual but astatine the aforesaid time, from a philosophical constituent of view, we are changing this ecology, and making it fragile time by day,” helium adds.

Field Notes, too, belongs to Supriyo’s database of site-specific exhibits containing sketches from operation sites. The enactment features latitudes and longitudes, which are labelled arsenic man-made borders by the artist. “I tried to resonate that with my work, wherever I americium besides documenting definite boundaries oregon human-made restrictions.”

The accumulation is connected till February 7 astatine Alliance Française de Trivandrum. Time: from 10am to 5pm.