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Artist Statement for Gayatri Tandon
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“But the strangest and most wonderful constructions in the whole animal world are the amazing intricate constructions made by the primate, Homo sapiens. Each normal individual of this species make a self. Out of its brain it spins a words and deeds, and like the other creatures, it doesn’t have to know what its doing; it just does it. This web protects it, just like the snails shell, and provides it a livelihood”
Daniel Dennett
My practice consists of capturing the urban London life that I come across every day. It is my journey but also the journey of every Londoner as they travel daily up and down the London tube. We are the blood gushing through the London underground that gives life to the city. My art works are visual shorthand for painting everyday-life’s mundane schedule. What makes them special is their directness and child-like simplicity, enthused by the instantaneous reality of the photograph and the fantastic interpretation of paint. Yet my subjects are not the protagonist but rather the characters that populate the chance illustrations of the creator.
My works are narrative and allegorical; they tell the story not one that I wish to narrate rather the one which my viewer or subject creates.
There are no single entry points into these installations. The suggestion is that the negotiation between the works is much more open-ended, where I leave an opening for the viewer to enter and exit at their free will, encouraging them to spin a world of their own fantasy, each story a very intricate and complicated reflection of the subject that they are. I treat each work as an individual piece yet they work best when they sit together giving life and continuity to each other. This play with installation is an aspect that I shall continue to work with. A well-formatted and thought-through installation is a very seductive device to entice my viewer to have his or her own intimacy with my work.
"The purpose of art is to force us to notice" according to Viktor Shklovsky, the same way my practice tries to make those things more obvious or rather gives a different light to the life that we lead. My practice plays around the light heartedness of life.
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