Written by Vandana Kalra |Updated: September 30, 2019 7:49:51 am
Artist Sudarshan Shetty gives an afterlife to discarded objects and evokes memories from the past
For those in the Capital who attended his 2014 exhibition “every broken moment, piece by piece” with the same gallery, the showcase, in more ways than one, takes forward the thought he presented back then — that history is not static.
At one end of the 40-feet table, Sudarshan Shetty places a television and a vinyl player, and on the other a microscope and an oil can. Everything else is in between. In the emptiness of the room, Shetty’s table seems to represent a world where stationary objects do not produce sound but share their stories in silence. Based on objects that he encountered in Mumbai’s Chor Bazaar and those in his own collection and that of friends, the domestic discards might be obsolete to several but Shetty feels they hold memories of the past. “It comes from the basic human instinct to preserve. The act of carving them in wood connects with our own idea of mortality. The monuments built in the memory of someone or even benches in the park named after someone are a way of remembering them,” says the Mumbai-based artist.
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