Jannatul Ferdous
In the exhibition ‘Grey Contours’ we witness the emergence of an artist whose works reside between the real and the imaginary. “Soma Surovi Jannat works with the world, seen mostly as real, often as an absurd realm seemingly unfathomable in its breadth and depth, and at times as a receding horizon — a real beyond our rational understanding,” to quote Mustafa Zaman. The recognizable forms of humans, animals and man-made objects are rendered unfamiliar since they are seen through the lens of imagination. In fact, they are translated into metaphors, as such, “debased from their actual morphological structure.”
The artist attempts to create a space where viewers can enhance their overall visual perception through an acute understanding of the interrelationship between the world and the constructed images.‘Grey Contours’ consists mostly of a series of drawings interspersed with a few installations — together they embody Soma Surovi’s experience of living in a Santhal village in West Bengal, India. The sparse pen drawings rendered on handmade paper bring to light a new perspective on objects and natural elements.
Surovi is a practitioner who tries to incorporate her experiences of nature into the artistic space she creates. Her efforts are directed towards harnessing the time and space she herself has been part of — a matrix in which she has had the opportunity to develop her understanding of “being in the world”. They are developed through a direct contact with the real spaces. This process creates its own values and makes its own demands while she tries to discover a sense of harmony amongst what are otherwise disparate and unrelated elements in the external world.
The exhibition will remain open till 7th March 2018, at La Galerie, Alliance Française de Dhaka. Visiting Hours: Monday to Thursday from 3:00 pm to 9:00 pm, Friday and Saturday (9:00 am to12:00 noon and 5:00 pm to 8:00 pm). We are closed on Sundays.
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