Benodebehari Mukherjee
Through Wakefulness, A Night Rising presents a special body of work (from the early 1920s to the late
1950s) from across Mukherjee's travels and interests, including landscapes, figurations, flower studies,
wood-cuts self-portraits as well as some post-blindness collages and compositions that create a memorable
discourse around how vision appeared to him. Mukherjee's poignant reclamation of sight through intuition -
replacing overt realism - suggests an unexpected but distinctive brand of late modernism in which
individual perspective is prioritized through a vocabulary of motifs. Still, in some sense, the changing
dichotomies of intimacy and distance that he explored in his practice were united in a kind of “indigenous
modernism” through calligraphic techniques - and reveal his intention of maintaining an artistic and
aesthetic approach even after he went blind, almost as if Mukherjee himself was preparing for total
darkness in his search for the particularities of life through experience.
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Treibor Mawlong
Once Around the Sun is a solo exhibition of Mawlong's wood-cuts and drawings that recognize the dignity
of labor amidst the unevenness of development in contemporary reality alongside systemic issues like
poverty, lack of education, inaccessibility to healthcare and infrastructure and a disconnection from the
modern world in the Meghalayan village of Mawbri, situated in the remote district of Mawkyrwat.
Inspired by forms of the graphic novel and comic books, Mawlong's wood-cuts are sequential stories that
unfold in narrative time even within a flattened, often dramatic cropping. A jagged and persistent
darkness glitches in his wood-cuts. Rampant though it is, the inky blackness of his mise-en-scène
compositions is interrupted by slivers of white, a kind of anti-space that reforms the dynamics of
negative and positive space, creating an eternal, spectral appearance. A source of light is self-generated
perhaps from a screen, a tree or a caged chicken and travels through the composition with an enigmatic
radiance that encourages a textual reading of his work, and often enough,
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