Gigi Scaria

Artville Contemporary Artist Of The Day 
Gigi Scaria 
Title: Fine balance
Medium: water color on paper
Size: 20 x 32 inches

Gigi Scaria’s art practice focuses on rapid transformation of cityscapes to investigate and the critique political, economic and geographical territories and the realities of present-day Indian mega-cities.

Concerned with global impacts on personal/private and social/public spaces, Scaria analyses urban architecture to investigate the chaotic demolition and ruthless displacement throughout poor urban areas. Scaria comments on global markets subsuming national and social territories with personal, ironic responses to these transformations.

Described as an ‘archaeologist of urban spaces’, Scaria investigates the layers of identity, nationhood and ethnic issues hidden within communities and how these relate to people’s built environments, social prejudice and status.

The abstracted structures that Scaria imagines and manufactures in the photographs shown here reconfigure ideas of unmitigated urban construction and sprawl of New Delhi, Scaria’s local environment.

Gigi Scaria sees his new work Wind chime as a simultaneous visualisation of the past, present and future. Buildings from New Delhi were photographed, then re-imagined and recreated from Taranaki aluminium and suspended, cyclically turning underneath a cog-like structure. Scaria says these architectural structures act as the archetype of memories of home, spaces in our minds and of social hierarchies and inequalities. In the context of urban development, human existence can attain a state of permanent migration. For the artist, this wind chime resonates with a permanent tussle of the permanence and impermanence of personal and social space.
courtesy:govettbrewster

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