THAKAR NEHA
Resume
Neha Thakar
Date of Birth:
09 - 11 - 1980
Mobile: +91 - 99252 33467
E-mail: nehajthakar@gmail.com
Present
Address: 38, Jayesh Colony, Near Free looters club, Fatehgunj, Baroda,
Gujarat, 390002
Permanent
Address: 12/12 - 45, Shahpoor, Machhlipith Main Road, Surat, Gujarat, 395003
Educational Qualification
M.V.A.: 2010 – Painting, Faculty of Fine Arts, M.S.
University of Baroda, Gujarat.
B.V.A.: 2008 – Painting, Faculty of Fine Arts, M.S.
University of Baroda, Gujarat.
B.Com.: 2001 –
Accountancy, South Gujarat University.
Experience (outside the field)
Ongoing
assignment – Working on interior of
an Ayurvedic hospital – precisely on the aroma and colures scheme.
Residency Attended
2012:Bengaluru
artist residency, Bangalore.
2011: Painting
camp, Symbiosis Technology, Vishakhapatnam, Andhra Pradesh.
2011:
Residency at Puri by Art Konsult, Delhi.(14 days)
2010: Charity
camp at We care(NGO), Baroda, Gujarat.
2010: Khoj
Residency, Peers, New Delhi.(one
month)
2009:
Residency Program by British Council at Mehranghad Fort, Jodhpur, Rajasthan.
Exhibitions
2013:Idea of
sublime, group show at Vadhera art gallery, curetted by Gaytri Sinha.
2012:
Photography group show, Rosenfeld Gallery, Israel.
2012: Gallery
as studio ,solo project at Gallery Espace, Delhi.(12days)
2012: Outside
In, Experimental Site Specific Show at Priyashri Art Gallery, Mumbai.
2012: India
Art fair 2012, Delhi
2011: Composed
Trace & Garbage, Photography Group Show, Curetted by Vivan Sundaram, Exhibit 320,
Delhi.
2011: LASALLE College of
Arts, Singapore.
2011: Kala
Ghoda Art Festival, Mumbai.
2011: Myth
& Reality group show, Guild Art Gallery, Mumbai.
2010: Drifting
stills, Curetted by Rahul Bhattachrya, Art Konsult, Delhi.
2010: The
story of the multiples, Curetted by Amit Mukhopadhyay, Emami Chisel art,
Kolkata.
2010:
Journey group show, Art and Soul,
Mumbai.
2008: Works
Exhibited at Golden Brush, Kolkata.
Workshops
2009: Book
Making workshop, By Vishwa Shraff, Faculty of Fine arts, Baroda, Gujarat
2007: Marathon
with drawings, a workshop conducted by Vivansundaram, Faculty of Fine Arts,
M.S.
University of Baroda, Gujarat
2005: Attended
a workshop at the Kerala Mural Art, Faculty of Fine Arts, M.S. University,
Baroda, Gujarat
Awards & Scholarships
2012: "Artist in
lab" Eawag research lab, Zurich.(three months)
2010-11: “Best
promising artist” award by Art India Magazine
2012: :“Inlaks Fine arts” award
Experience
2012:Presitation
at Eawag research LAB, Zurich .
2012:Presentation
at Bangalore sate Lalit kala.
2011:
Slideshow and discussion conducted by Art History department, Faculty of Fine
arts,
Jamiya Milia, Delhi
2011:
Slideshow and discussion conducted by
Faculty of Fine arts, Vir Narmad University,
Surat, Gujarat
2010-11:
Visiting lecturer at Faculty of Fine Arts, Veer Narmad University, Surat ,
Gujarat
Other Interests
Photography,
experimenting with fragrances by studying and understanding the chemical
processes in their making.
* Current
Studio at SPACE ARTIST STUDIO, Vadodara. (Gujarat, INDIA)
Write-up
Ice as a medium in the work has a
varied implication. It serves as a base that supports many different ways of
execution i.e. carving, moulding, drilling drawing and many more. But the
inherent nature of change is always central to the medium. It holds the marks
may it be the techniques mentioned above for a given moment of time but not for
prolonged passage of time (unless preserved by maintaining environmental
factors). This fleeting and ephemeral nature of the medium destabilises
the notion of permanence. The dynamics of change is immensely important and
applied to the span of existence in any material or organism. As the famous
saying by Heraclitus “you cannot step twice into the same stream” echoes the
ever-changing world. Some changes are drastic and violent where some are subtle
and slow. Ice in my work
underscores the change that is the only potent and permanent phenomenon in the
world.
In my work H2O(S) which starts from
a solid block of ice; puncturing hole with drilling machines, later filling
colour in the holes and let it spread on its own accord. For the climate of
India ice is not a natural state of water and for the reason allows
disintegration to a more stable form (liquid) in a span of time. As the ice
disintegrates it slowly allows colour to permeate into the block of ice, giving
slow spreading effect within the block. In the end completely transformed to
liquid with the colour mixed all throughout the work.
With the conception of the work a
significant term Metastability plays a vital role. As the term suggests for a
stable state of substance provided it is subjected to no more than small
disturbances, seem paradoxical. It shows the unchanging nature of a material
due to the fact that it is not worked upon by external factors. But as a matter
of fact instability is inherent to everything. The work show this state of
metastability when there is a silence without any changes, a state of stability
of the block of ice in the space and time, unless it is worked upon with
driller and ink. And again enters a state of stability when the ices ice
completely transform to liquid water mixed with colour.
Applied to wider phenomenon may
illustrates this transformation. A secluded indigenous culture for instance can
be taken as a stable state of a system.
With equilibrium within, the nature, environment and untouched by other
cultures. The state remains stable unless an interference of external agent
induces change on the culture in the form of ideas. Injecting new ideas and
hopes for a better future. These ideas can be numerous for example technology,
development, modernisation or globalisation. Some times these dispersion of
ideas are subtle and sometimes violent. The assimilation of the ideas takes
time to penetrate the society. Breaking the substratum of the indigenous
culture, knowledge and way of life slowly transforming it into a new culture,
knowledge and way of life.
The process
of change is accentuated in my work showing the transforming nature of being in
a society. Transformation and change is always considered as a positive state
of survival. It leads to difference and complexity, which is necessary for any
society to sustain in a longer run. The work celebrates transformation and
changes and glorifies the difference before and after it.
About
My Work
Whether or not, from the dawn
of human civilization art has been made with several intentions, but the
purpose remain same, to delight the senses of onlooker. My work is the intimate
dialogue between my total being and the visual agents which constitute the
medium. I have always tried to realize visual and emotional force
simultaneously by treating the medium in a way where the viewer becomes a
constituent part of the work in an undeviating way. I work “towards” something
rather than “from”˗˗˗to
transcend the creative process. This process enables me to create myriad
visuals within a visual and the changing visual formation creates an illusion
which compels the onlooker to participate not as an outsider but to involve
with the ongoing process.
The natural tendency of both
the mediums; the disintegration of ice and the disseminative quality of smell,
the emergence and the divergence and the celebration with natural world
explores the fleeting and ephemeral, notions of being and time and vice-versa. In ice work, my intention
is to provide full autonomy to the viewer to see the changing visuality within
one visual. “Passion and Desire” has a long history. The “apple” which
popularly symbolizes passion and desire, is taken in to consideration in my
work titled “Impression”. The attempt is to show the signifying marks codified
by culture that remain within the framework of subjective experience, dependent
upon the unique way in which each of us mobilize in the contemporary rootless
and materialistic era. This attitude of work seems particularly relevant in a
world increasingly dominated by purely rational thought and money-motivated
action.
The terms “absence” and
“presence” are dependent upon the notion of being.
Being is not inexplicable or transcendent, but
exists within a framework or state. The work titled “Presence of Absence” is an
attempt to explore the idea of metaphysics
of presence by removing things from the studio subsequently and documenting
it after each removal. Then, I placed painted white clips on the wall and floor
in order suggest a trace of the
history of the space. As it is said that no space is empty, I tried to suggest
an “uncannyness” by removing the whole stuff leaving some traces behind.
“Smell Chamber” is
the developed representation of the ice work, where my aim is to condense the
visual dimension and create an atmosphere of realization to make a viewer “to
conceive” rather than “to perceive” the work. The works consist of three
chambers, two filled with coffee and chloroform and the middle one is empty.
The intention here is to “draw in one’s head”, i.e.to make the onlooker to
evoke his/her own momentary conception of being and time. By this process, my
aim is to make a viewer to recall his “psychobiographical” experiences of the
smell by sensing. The process will take place effortlessly and the viewer’s
memory will become a “pscychogeograpy” of the work where innumerable visual
formation will take place, and at this juncture the motto is to subvert the
notion of art of being merely “visual”, I intend to create “psychovisual”
art.
Neha Thakar
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