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Mithra Kamalam
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Withdrawal
symptoms, you were acting like
a sun, 2018, watercolour, khadia and collected object on paper,
205 x 159 cm |
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Detail 1, Withdrawal
symptoms, you were acting
like
a sun |
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Detail 2, Withdrawal
symptoms, you were acting
like
a sun |
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When we played Madonna and
Child, my antidote tale series, 2018, watercolour and khadia on paper, 210
x 187 cm |
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Detail 1,
When we played Madonna and
Child,
my antidote tale series |
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Detail 2,
When we played Madonna and
Child,
my antidote tale series |
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Corrective measures - And here
we are against the death, 2019, air dry clay, gesso, arabic gum, khadia and watercolour,
size variable |
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Corrective measures - And here
we
are against the death, 2019, air dry clay, gesso, glue, khadia and watercolour,
size variable |
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Corrective measures - And here we
are against
the death, 2020, air dry clay, gesso, glue,
khadia and watercolour, size variable |
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About the Artworks |
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My practice
is mainly dominated by painting, which adeptly extended by other forms like
sculptural installations. I develop metaphors from surroundings and
experiences as my works are always a representation of personal history
connected to social history, portraying people and nature which carries
metaphoric expressions to demonstrate psychological states, and it appears
as performative, mythically fabled narrations. My research is always
addressing disquiets regarding relationships, sexuality, body, gender and
self, here, mostly self act as the protagonist. Moreover, I’m keenly
Exploring and referring archives, especially my admiration have driven me to
Mughal miniature paintings, early Arab illustrations and folklores, finding
archetypes and bringing them along with the immediate present, though it’s
autobiographical in nature, there is an attempt to readdress the notion of
indigeneity and vernacular idiom. Here my interest is to see the
‘vernacular’ as a language which is untamed, as instinctual as love, hate,
and fear, and represents a common public in its all mundanity.
Using the
idea of ‘metafiction’ which helps me constantly create a playful awareness
of pictorial language by breaking the continuation of a single narration,
this allows you to attach and detach simultaneously. Inspired by Alice
Walker’s and Nawal El Sadavi’s thoughts of ‘Democratic womanism’, embracing
the struggle and suffering, embracing the notion of three layers of love,
love for the self, love for masculine other and love for the people. |
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About the Artist |
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Mithra
Kamalam (b.1991)
received her Bachelor's Degree in painting from RLV College of Music and Fine
Arts Tripunithura (2016), and MVA Painting from M. S. University of
Baroda (2018). She has been the recipient of Narendra Gajanan Bhatt gold
medal in MVA Painting, MSU Baroda. In 2017 she undertook internship in
traditional Mughal miniature painting under miniature artist Ajay Sharma
from Jaipur. Kamalam was invited for the Artist Residency ‘Mandalay
Hall Edition-1 Living Galleries’ curated by Bose Krishnamachari, Fort
Kochi (2018). Her recent exhibitions include, ‘Thinking Matter’ group
exhibition curated by Mario D’Souza, Space Studio Baroda (2020); Art
Asia 2018, Art Universiade, South Korea, Seoul; ASYAAF (Asian Student
and Young Artist Festival) Seoul, South Korea (2018); KHOJ PEERS Share
Programme 2018, Khoj International Artist’s Association, New Delhi,
India; ‘Archival Dialogues’ curated by Pronoy Chakraborty, Priyasri Art
Gallery, Mumbai (2017). Kamalam is currently based in Kozhikode, Kerala. |
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