Chennai’s Artiform blends contemporary art with everyday living spaces

What if you could envision a coating connected your partition earlier adjacent deciding to bring it home?

At the Collectors Room by Artiform plan studio, that question brings a caller attack to collecting art. Their debut exhibition, titled Spatial Dialogues, envisions the abstraction wherever art, design, and assemblage intersect, bringing unneurotic 4 artists: Bhagwan Chavan, Dilipkumar Kesavan, Jacob Jebaraj, and Pravin Kannanur, each representing Cholomandel Artists Village, to showcase their abstract artworks arsenic a mode of integrating modern creation into mundane surviving spaces. 

Founded successful 2025 by Shreyans Bohra, Artiform began arsenic a premium interior plan studio. The name, helium explains, reflects the thought of “where creation meets form”. Initially occupying 2 floors arsenic an interiors-focused space, it aboriginal included The Collectors Room arsenic a level for creation and collectables.

Through assorted mediums of abstraction, beryllium it acrylic, watercolour oregon sculpture, the accumulation aims to make a shared dialog betwixt their practices. 

“We’ve ever wanted to integrate creation into mundane living. Just arsenic radical take furnishings that reflects their personality, creation has the powerfulness to explicit thing profoundly personal. A portion that resonates with 1 idiosyncratic whitethorn not needfully talk to another, and that’s what makes it truthful unique,” says Shreyans.

“It allows our viewers to visualise however a enactment tin adhd character, warmth and meaning to their ain homes,” adds Shreyans. That thought comes live done works specified arsenic those by Bhagwan Chavan, whose abstract compositions successful oil, acrylic and watercolour lend a consciousness of warmth and extent to the space. 

Layers of heavy indigo, ochre, rust, and muted world tones are intersected by bold geometric lines, creating a consciousness of architectural fragments and shifting horizons. 

InPrimordial Elements, a bid of granite sculptures, Jacob Jebaraj draws inspiration from the maestro sculptors of Mahabalipuram. “I learned that sculptors from Mamallapuram cautiously selected granite from circumstantial mountains for peculiar idols, specified arsenic Ganesha, based connected their knowing of each stone’s hardness, softness, colour, and however it responds nether pressure. Their heavy cognition of the worldly and its possibilities inspired maine to make my ain works for this exhibition,” helium says.

“Curating creation successful a showroom is precise antithetic from curating successful a gallery. The situation was to marque the artworks converse people with lived spaces similar kitchens, wardrobes, and homes,” says curator Isaiarasi Annamalai.

As creation and plan progressively overlap, Spatial Dialogues offers a caller mode of viewing and collecting art.

Spatial Dialouges is connected astatine Artiform, Durgapuram, Mylapore, till July 20.