Written by Dipanita Nath |Published: April 14, 2019 1:00:05 am
A Dozen Ways Of Seeing
An art residency draws out cutting-edge works on socio-cultural realities and the environment.
A house, shaped like a mountain, rises in Rupali Patil’s artwork and recalls the frenzy of construction on hillsides across the country. Patil grew up in Pune, overlooking verdant hills that are now pockmarked with buildings. “I liked the idea of using a paper-cutting mat, employed by architects to create plans of houses, for my work, which is titled To Be Hollowed,” says Patil, who studied printmaking at MS University, Baroda. An artist, who is also trying to follow a zero-waste lifestyle, Patil has, previously, commented on capitalism and water privatisation in the work Let’s Divide The River Too. The comment in To Be Hollowed is reinforced by lines by the poet Eunice de Souza crawling through the house like ants, We push so much under the carpet / the carpet’s now a landscape / A worm embedded in each tuft / There’s a forest moving / Everybody smiles and smiles and smiles…
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