Galleries come alive again with Kochi Art Week
The Hindu
Exhibitions at 11 venues address a range of themes, many inspired by pandemic
The maiden Kochi Art Week has injected fresh life into the art galleries of Fort Kochi and Mattancherry. Inaugurated on December 12, it is being conducted at 11 venues across the city and addresses a range of themes, many inspired by the ongoing pandemic.
David Hall is host to ‘Wheeling on Borderlines’, a show by the former Chairman and Secretary of Kerala Lalithakala Akademi, Sathyapal, which offers a peek into the life of tribes of Madhya Pradesh, where the artist lived intermittently for several years from 1998.
At Kashi Café, 47 black-and-white drawings by Mumbai-based artist Lakshmi Madhavan fascinate with curious use of technology. The small frames grouped together in an entity titled ‘See, Saw, Seen’ are works done when the first lockdown was announced in March 2020. The most striking feature in the drawings is the eye, which moves in six frames. “I had a certain sense of sight, during this period, by watching my baby and the changed perspectives due to the pandemic,” says Lakshmi.