Per Materium’ brings together the worlds of art, design and ceramics to narrate the story of creation

Latitude 28 announced to present an exhibition of Contemporary Art, Design and Ceramic of the various artists. Exhibition will be from 14 to 31 October 2022 in Lado Sarai, New Delhi. 

Meticulously curated for young collectors, designers and architects, Per Materiam brings together the work of five artists—Harman Taneja, Vinod Daroz, Harisha Chinnangod, Srishti Menon and Reyaz Badaruddin—whose works border the realm of abstraction. 

Using versatile materials like resin and terracotta, colourful pigments and glazes, textures and moulds—these diverse art practitioners play with the idea of recurring motifs and bring out the erratic individuality of the base Materials at hand. The outcome of their imaginative explorations is one that is filled with ingenuity and visionary aesthetic.

‘Per Materium’ brings together the worlds of art, design and ceramics. To narrate the story of creation it is essential to look at material as an essence, to feel its tangibility with vision. From acrylic to resin to ceramic and from painting to sculpture, the exhibiting artists experiment with the material to challenge the distance between ‘art’ and ‘craft’ thereby making these boundaries fluid which can seep into each other leading to metamorphosis. The fragility and permanence of clay has been of special interest to me because of the play of textures it exudes as well as the performativity attached to it. Motifs are integral to design as well as fine art which in multiplicity through the works on display but each have distinctive tones, which points to the idea of recurrence and innovation. This exhibition therefore is a call for a journey back to the material as well as to rethink contemporary art as an intersection of intermediality, said Bhavna Kakar, Founder and Director, LATITUDE 28.

In the works of the five artists—Harman Taneja, Vinod Daroz, Harisha Chinnangod, Srishti Menon and Reyaz Badaruddin—the artistic intent submits itself at the altar of the material. Almost immersed in meditation, each of their works falls back on recurring motifs and themes as the artists explore the development of their distinctive mark. As if counting beads on a rosary, a multiplicity emerges through the practice of repeated creation using these versatile materials. These diverse practitioners play with the idea of the material and the recurring motif that threads their oeuvres together.