Exposition

A drawing hangs in the middle (2023)

Junuka Deshpande
open exposition

About this exposition

This exposition is based on a project that explored observation of a crossroad through drawings. The drawings are made from the same place on a sidewalk observing the same square over 30 days. During this process, I tried to explore how a continuous observation of a space and the outcome of the process evokes a certain sense of connectedness and reflexive dialogue with the place and its elements- visible and invisible. This artistic research contemplates on the idea of too early too late through the process of drawing where the drawing emerges in the moment, while can be anticipated early and interpreted in hindsight. My exposition considers the act of drawing as an embodied form of recording as opposed to drawing as an image-making (representational) exercise. This process of drawing becomes an engagement with the existing spatial elements, arrangements, their interconnections and importantly, with the self, that is observing. Along with the external engagement and a dialogue with the space, the moment of drawing is both- the outcome of observation and a connection in the moment of making it. This tension between an immediacy in the moment of drawing and the reflectivity in the process of meaning-making of the drawings creates a parallel relationship between an immediate present and the immediate past. The empty space on the surface before drawing, therefore becomes a potential space to record moments from the space around and to remember the moments that are passing by. The work, in the form of drawings of various sizes aspires to present the engagement with the space. The work also gives me an opportunity to find critical moments in the records of time, memory and space. The drawing as an outcome hence, hangs in the middle between the moment of record and moment of being.
typeresearch exposition
keywordsDrawing, Observation, moment, Immersion, dialogue
date14/11/2022
published08/10/2023
last modified08/10/2023
statuspublished
share statusprivate
affiliationSrishti Manipal Institute of Art, Design and Technology
copyrightJunuka Deshpande
licenseCC BY-NC-ND
languageEnglish
urlhttps://www.researchcatalogue.net/view/1807187/1807188
doihttps://doi.org/10.22501/rc.1807187
published inResearch Catalogue


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