Written by Pallavi Chattopadhyay |Published: June 18, 2019 12:31:52 am
He Saw at the Sea Shore
In his new exhibition, TK Hareendran turns his gaze on the ideas of pain, longing and freedom.
Kerala-born TK Hareendran’s canvases at Art Konsult gallery unconsciously place the viewer in the shoes of a researcher. The task is simple: to decipher the meaning of his text-laden paintings in an exhibition titled “Shore of Alphabets”. The text appears similar to Egyptian hieroglyphs that utilised pictorial writing, full of human and animal figures, inscribed on pottery vessels and coffins hidden in tombs. The ancient Egyptians called hieroglyphs as medu netjer (god’s words); likewise, Hareendran sprinkles images of an ox, fish, crab, fly and a man meditating on small panels on an entire wall, interspersing them with the letters of Tamil, English and Hindi.
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