For starters, the gallery is dominated by the artist's interpretation of Varaha, the boar avatar assumed by Lord Vishnu to save the earth from crumbling into the waters. Arunkumar infuses the work with his sardonic humour in the way he has crafted it from shredded plastic bags in shades of pink. It ...
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Curator’s Note
The reading, interpretation and representation of Tract materialises from a strange investigation- not merely of Arun’s work but also some of his afflictions that have injected weight into his content.
Our collaboration began when we met in his studio in the summer of 2009. Arun began with confessing that he stood at the cusp of a new solo exhibition after almost four years, and that the nostalgia of his childhood home, and its paradoxical contrast to the political correctness of the suburban dream that he was trying hard to fulfil, had fuelled much of his work since his last show.
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