Creative Expressions/ Impressions of COVID
The artist community is using their creativity to relay important messages regarding the pandemic to a larger audience. Artists associated with KASS use their artworks to express their impressions about this pandemic
During the long and unexpected bouts of self isolation life has changed like never before, but irrespective of the situation the show must go on and Shan Re wanted to make best use of it. She has diverted all her energies in creating relevant art work. She is using social media as her canvas to create awareness about how to embrace uncertainty, maintain emotional balance and how to stay calm through her artworks.
Avantika Mathur has a taken an interesting approach to encourage people to use masks and maintain necessary sanitary standards. This particular artwork exclaims to the viewer to not put on shoes! It is her way of saying, do not step outside the house, do not loiter around. By doing so, you don’t only put yourself in danger but others around you as well.
In her artwork IN ROADS, Parvathi Nayar focused on the movement of people on the streets, how they are together and apart, distinct yet invisible, and leaching into each other’s space and time. Roads are the arteries of the city and the people are its bloodbeats constituting the living heart of the city. The work assumes an additional significance when viewed through the lenses of our time, when words like “social distancing” have come to stay, presumably for quite a while. What does this mean for us as a collective, and for the individual? How do we continue to see ourselves as a community, as a group, as a people?
The virus has been intruding in every country, and has been taking away good from bad. But, through this art piece, Divdrisht would like to convey that nature is singing again. The hills are alive again. So, good can come from bad too. Thorny Blossom by Kavya Agarwal stands to say that the journey is thorny but we will get through! The idea here is that even during this difficult times due to COIVID we will come out successful and blossoming even more than before. In this period where we have an overload of information, we need to ensure that this knowledge is to inform us and not to scare us. As long as we adhere by the rules guided to us, we will untangle right out of this hassle.
Overcome by Daan Oude Elferink has a meaning for him regarding corona, because exactly one week before the first art fair of the season was supposed to start, all art fairs where postponed. The artwork OVERCOME was supposed to be the main art piece for that fair (decided long before Corona hot the world). Now this 2 meter big art piece will be the main artwork of the first art fair that will take place. When we have overcome! Realizing this gives him goosebumps all over and so does it to us!
