Durbar
Hall Art Gallery D opened up in colourful suggestions and imaginative pieces
and since none was there at that time because of the heavy rain, it gave me
ample liberty to walk around scanning and then savouring the works of the
artists’ duo – Amjum Rizve and Hima Hari. They “combine their lines, colours and even their sense of distribution or
distortion of forms and spaces”* except for a few sketches. Yes, you heard
me right. It’s not a separate display of both the artists’ but a singular one.
Such displays, I believe, are uncommon.
Collectibles they gathered overtime which they have used instead of a flex at the entrance of the gallery.
Hima and Amjum
Amjum
and Hima’s works reflect their everyday life and locale, their routine giving
it all the colour and meaning to make it an extraordinary one; a celebration of
their life. It’s a mix of emotions, materials and images – a potpourri or
sorts; sketches in wooden and fabric frames, paintings in canvas and scrolls
with pom poms, heart-warming collage of friendship, a reminder of the college
days with whom they had communicated spiritedly. Colourful fabrics – some
plain, some ornate while others worked upon...there are diverse kinds of
fabrics they had collected overtime. They have not only collected such found
objects but also intense and passionate personal memories that speak to one
about their very subjective and delicate day-to-day existence. Anjum is all
tender when he points out that Hima loves to sow and collects favourite pieces
to later upcycle it; incorporating them into their paintings.
Amjum and Hima both agreed that
it was sometimes hard to work together when they started out since both have a
strong sense of creative disposition. They did clash at times but finally they
succeeded in bringing forth the best of both talents. There is mutual faith,
trust and love that positively binds them together – in life and in art.
All
their works have been done over a period of time. The collage started when they
were in college. It’s a display of the warmth of friendship, affection and
gratitude. Their works contain daily visitors to their abode from crows and
pigeons to dogs and cats and their friends as well. Certain images are repeated
in their works from kittens and angry birds to toys which can be found in their
home where they live together. It leads us to the triptych which mentions
‘Couples not registered’ and a nude that calls out ‘Made in Kerala’. It does
sort of evoke a rebellious nature for which Amjum clarifies it is these social
norms that highlights it to be so, else it would have been ‘mundane’ as well.
Amjum
and Hima arrived as I was about to leave giving me a chance to meet these young
and talented creatives. Smiling, innocence-abound and ready to answer the
queries. It was then that they explained every little detail I asked for,
particularly the kohl-eyed Amjum while Hima had to play the hostess to other
visitors who had started to arrive.
All their works are not titled
outside but within the work itself; creatively integrated.
The show concludes today, 5th July at 7 pm.
*from the essay.
5 comments:
Beautiful and artistic.
Love these artists' style and creativity and wonderful communal display of multi artists ~
Happy Weekend to you ~ ^_^
interesting looking show :)
its pretty common at uni for people to work together like these, often the results are better than working by yourself, sometimes not lol
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