Tracing Transition

Neha Thakar has done her MFA in Painting from the MSU Baroda. Neha’s core concern is that of understanding a ‘particular process of transformation’, that is a shift, a move, from existence to non-existence; such that the form becomes or gets a status of a language. In videos like Process, Delivered, Neha employed ice, and made sculptures of it, and captured the way they changed their form. Such that the documentation of this entire process became the final art work, as there was no evidence / remains of the original physical works she undertook.

Installation with ice, done at the Residency Program by The British Council at Mehranghad Fort, Jodhpur, Rajasthan, 2009

Further Neha likes to plays with the contrast between the tangible and the intangible (in her works - objects catering to ones senses like – different fragrances / odours). She prefers to takes a minimal approach while executing her works, be it her sculptures or her drawings. Delhi provided her a lot of possibilities to explore. A walk through Old Delhi, and the place had lot to tease Neha’s senses, be it the Khari Baoli, the flower market or the old- ittar shop; these places nearly instigated her to align her works, for the Residency in relation to them.

Stills from video Impression, material - ice