“Exhibiting the works of Baiju Parthan, Pooja Iranna, Mithu Sen and Gigi Scaria, the exhibit, ‘Organic dreams of electric sheep: Image, Empathy and Pulse: After Philip K Dick’, seeks to weave together an accumulation of questions that are indicated by the transference of images across the forms of photography and video; the implications of such transference on the image or images that make this journey, the subtle and perhaps meta changes that this journey results in for the language of images, as well as the role of the image in language formation (by positing the logic of philosophy as indicated by Wittgenstein against the form of the logic used) and the ethical impulses of images so traveled that distance and reiteration begets the question of our relation to images as ‘electric sheep’, i.e. as fabrications with specific intent.
 

Thus the works exhibited herein are positioned as ‘electric sheep’; as stand-ins for the focus of the conflict between the empathy and the image and therefore also an implication of the human upon the construct of the non-human, and thus activated by transference across forms resulting in not only a displacement of the image, but also of the displacement of time and of distance. The exhibits asks in effect; if we are implicated in the predominance of the image in our language, and thus also in the consequent separation, fabrication, presentation and animation of images, then what ethical considerations arise when distance mitigates the relations between image as experiential and image as construct and lastly what is the agency of the artistic within the formation of ‘electric sheep’? “ – Renuka Sawhney