Working in collaboration with Arario Gallery, The Guild will present a large-scale installation by TV Santhosh and a  work by Sathyanand Mohan in their booth  # 1510  Pier 94 at this year's Armory Show.

T.V Santhosh

‘A Room to Pray’

T V. Santhosh has acquired a major presence in the Indian and International art scene over the last decade. He has had several successful shows with many international art galleries and museums. T.V. Santhosh’s recent sculptural installation from ‘Passage to India’ is in the Frank Cohen collection at Initial Access. Some of his prominent museum shows are ‘Aftershock’ at Sainsbury Centre, Contemporary Art Norwich, England in 2007 and ’Continuity and Transformation’ Museum show promoted by Provincia di Milano, Italy.

T.V. Santhosh’s concept for this work is in the form of a poem written by him.

Mercy (Concept note)

A vision wretched enough

To enter deep into your mundane existence,

Sending a chilling shiver through the nerves.

A revelation of a war torn past

And terror infested present collide.

Your nimble feet

Touches the land of land mines.

There blooms not lotus,

But flames and screams of innocents.

A vision of your sacred blood and flesh

Makes you more vulnerable…timid.

Your prophecies went cutting across,

Wailing all the way through.

The future, not an end to your worries

May be just an apparition of your hounding dreams.

Are you a pessimist?

You stupid, don’t hurt my eyes!

A cluster of bones.

Will all those souls come back

And ask for it once again to pay back the debts?

Huge debts that rips your heart apart.

Piles of curses,

For the errors the history accumulated.

Look into your target who cries for your mercy.

It is just the same at both side of the barbed wires.

When will you stop?

Before the God himself intervenes?

I have made a room for you to pray.