Mar 26 2023 to Apr 04 2023 11 a.m.

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Where

Gallery Time and Space

The Guild, 2nd Floor # 55, Lavelle Road, Bangalore - 560 001

Event Description

About Soura Chatterjee: 

Artist Statement

This ideology belonging to the artist Soura’s is well expressed in his artworks on which he worked during the period of 2021 and 2022. The artist holds an education background of both the degrees of bachelor's in Fine arts from the College of Arts, Delhi: specialising in Graphic Arts, and also Masters in Visual arts degree from M. S. U Baroda.

"Brought up in a middle-class family, I was always keen on exploring society through incidents that take place around me. Moreover, a political orientation was a part of my upbringing. Other resources were added with that orientation, and now I like using my art as a medium to speak for the common people and their regular problems of social and political life. Often, one hears that commoners have no direct part in the politics of the state and are mere bystanders. The question is if we don’t take interest in politics, would that mean politics wouldn’t take interest in us? On the contrary, we experience almost on a daily basis how politics affects our lives directly and indirectly.

The concept of a welfare state conceived for the benefit of the masses has taken a beating. What else can I do except account for the
times, problems, and needs? I operate in a reactive mode when I see oppression the world over. I also express my opposition to tyranny, as shown in my artwork. My works, on the face of it, keep on shifting from one subject to another without seemingly any sort of formal continuation. I operate in a reactive mode when I see oppression the world over. I also express my opposition to tyranny, as shown in my artwork. How long should we remain silent participants?", he says.