PANAJI
Sunaparanta Goa Centre for the Arts will be organising ‘Box Politics & its Poetry’ - a group show of new works by contemporary artists as well as works from a private collection on April 7 which will be on display till June 5. The show will be open to the public from 10.30 am to 6.30 pm on all week days, except Sunday. Artists Prabhakar Barwe, George Byrne, Kedar Dhondu, Yamini Nayar, Jagannath Panda, Earl Park, Sudhir Patwardhan, Shrimanti Saha, Vasantha Yogananthan and Jiyoung Yoon have displayed their work in ‘Box Politics & its Poetry’.
In this exhibition, the box turns into the main site of inquiry. Over the past year, this architectural unit became central to people’s lives. It was a source of protection and solitude but also of fear and loneliness. The artists in this show position themselves at this threshold and invite a reconsideration of how we perceive and think in space. The works in this exhibition function as a blueprint, a sort of imagined geography. Space is repurposed and we daydream about new forms of human and non-human coexistence. From this perspective, the box was always a circle. As the interior and exterior landscapes are negotiated, the box is experienced both as a geometric object and a repository of memory.
