Chitra Ganesh
All the Farewells, 2023
Archival digital print
Framed: 149.9 x 119.4 x 5.1 cm
59 x 47 x 2 in
59 x 47 x 2 in
All the Farewells evokes the sublime with a central figure in the sea, looking out into a landscape framed by an ornamental arch. Large scale works from 2023 depart from...
All the Farewells evokes the sublime with a central figure in the sea, looking out into a landscape framed by an ornamental arch.
Large scale works from 2023 depart from the seriality of comics to situate the viewer in a singularly immersive scene. Protagonists exist in energetic connection with environment and alchemy, and experience transformative states of becoming. In composition and concept, the works are in conversation with art historical themes such as surrealism and the sublime. Ganesh’s speculative iconography explores temporalities and liminal spaces between life and death to reveal both the precarity and generative possibility of our contemporary every day.
Large scale works from 2023 depart from the seriality of comics to situate the viewer in a singularly immersive scene. Protagonists exist in energetic connection with environment and alchemy, and experience transformative states of becoming. In composition and concept, the works are in conversation with art historical themes such as surrealism and the sublime. Ganesh’s speculative iconography explores temporalities and liminal spaces between life and death to reveal both the precarity and generative possibility of our contemporary every day.