Threshold Gallery’s latest exhibition Bind/Bound speaks to a wide variety of contemporary concerns from bonding to the necessity of acceptance. It examines the fragility of human existence, and speaks about life and the human spirit on a most profound level. This show follows the ethos of an earlier thought-provoking exhibition titled Bakhiya, curated by Tunty Chauhan. In both exhibitions the artists tease the viewers imagination, making it exciting for the reader to travel through them and discover their common link. While one explores themes of resilience, mending and the acceptance of imperfection, the other explores relationships between family, friends and lovers within the community during difficult times.
The artists in Kintsugi /Bakhiya curated by Tunty Chauhan in 2020 voiced the need to mend, accept and appreciate the beauty in patched up fractured things and spirit. Through there varied materials and their enigmatic abstract figuration the artists have created emotionally and aesthetically striking image. They depict a contemplative pursuit of bringing together instead of breaking away like the darners, who repair damaged cloth. Similarly injecting a new life in the being restores the wounded spirit.
Priya Ravish Mehra articulates this concept through the preservation of the practice of Rafoogari the age-old tradition. In her quest to make the invisible visible Mehra makes the darning obvious on the cloth. While bringing attention to the technique, she is showing the cloth as flawed and not perfect. Her mixed media works, projects the emergence of the beauty and stability in the restored works and in our lives.
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