Solo Exhibition 13th February - 7th March 2020 at Kahan Art Space, Budapest, Hungary
In her recent works Pallavi started focusing more and more on emotional states that we have no words for (yet), that we are unable to express in a manner comprehensible to others. She calls these „absurd emotions”, which – like all inabilities to communicate – close us off and separate us from others. In the art works she’s created since arriving in Hungary, a great transformation is clearly visible. She shows an urge for experimentation. In order to widen her ways of expression she often breaks out of the limitations of two-dimensional paintings, occupies space as well. Some of her pieces might be called extended paintings as the motives, the visual elements seem to break free from the picture plane and grip the attention of the viewer even more by linking an abstract line to the material world. At the same time of widening her means of expression her works also show an almost ascetic reduction, which propels her in the direction of deeper understanding. It’s impossible not to notice the antithesis of the traditional Indian smorgasbord of colours in her black-and-white works; nor can we fail to see the minimalist intentions – a kind of concentration of meaning – in some of her newer works, especially the pure white ones. The colour black has become Pallavi Majumder’s trademark. Not in a technical sense but in a deeper symbolic meaning. She says: „ Black is seen as a grim colour that reflects the severity of a loss and the pain, but it provides me the utmost pleasure, contentment and bliss. It provokes and influences on the dialectics of thinking in colours. Therefore, through the denial of the colours my works also bring out a statement of the importance of colours. But instead of choosing a different one or using many I pick only one to stand for all: and that is Black. In this exhibition I explore the spatiality, temporality and relativity of entities with feelings, emotions, experiences and memories through this medium where Black becomes the primal chaos not the end but the beginning of colours, the beginning of a created world. It allows me to focus more on what I want to express and what I want to deliver. Sometimes one may feel that the more words, the less space for the spectator for free interpretation. Through this reduction I wish to render more freedom for the audience ’’to colour” the images I create in their own way. So it helps in the concentration of meaning and opens up the possibility of wider range for interpretation”.
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