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A Fundacao Oriente Visual Arts 2018 awardee Mansi Trivedi, who lives and works in Goa, is beginning an exhibition - ‘Ephemeral Gaze’ - of her various artworks at Fundação Oriente on November 8. The work will continue to be displayed till January 5, 2020. Mansi’s work has been represented in various group shows since 2011 and ‘Ephemeral Gaze’ is her second solo show, after ‘Before Crashing on Earth’ at Lalit Kala Akademi, New Delhi in 2017. The upcoming show includes her works conceptualized during and after the artist attended an arts residency at Casa da Cerca - Centro de Arte Contemporanca, Portugal in 2019.
With a Bachelor’s degree in Visual Art in Painting and masters degree in Visual Arts in Printmaking from the Faculty of Fine Arts, M S University in Baroda, Mansi has participated in several residencies in India, Bangladesh, Turkey and Portugal. During her journey in the world of art, she has been awarded with various scholarships and awards, among these are H R D Scholarship, the Prafulla Dahanukar Award and the Fundacao Oriente Visual Arts Award.
Describing Mansi’s work poetically, curator Miriam Koshy-Sukhija borrows words of Issa, ‘Listen, all creeping things - the bell of transience’ and says, “In the exploration of the poetics of transience, this is a body of works that sets the mood for slowing down and musing on the obscure, the empty spaces in between and the slow transmutation from one form to the other.”
Dwelling as it does on the alchemy of time and the elements working on the surface of our surroundings, from the remnants of a creeper stripped off a wall to the peeled under layers of plaster, these works trace the delicate cycle of evolving and devolving that is life’s only constant, claims Miriam.
Gravitating towards these visual cues or forms, textures, tones and negative spaces in her wanderings through Hampi, Goa and Portugal, Mansi documents and incubates them till she is ready to open up a physical dialogue with her material of choice.
Miriam explains, “From the luminosity and transparency of rice paper to the dense roughness of cork, Mansi zeroes in instinctively on the substrate that resonates with the corporeal experience she wishes to inquire into. Her relationship with making is visceral, the raw and simple materiality of paper connects her to an innate urge to make, scratch, scrape, stain, scar and pierce the surface, traversing outer and inner topographies to ponder on flux, imperfections, incompleteness and impermanence,” she adds.
