• Mon
    22
    Apr
    2019
    Sat
    27
    Apr
    2019

    Punjab Lalit Kala Akademi Presents

    Paradoxically Absurd

    Exhibition of artworks

    by Manjot Kaur

    opening on 22nd April at 5.15 pm

    at Punjab Lalit Kala Akademi Gallery

    Punjab Kala Bhawan

    Rose Garden, Sector 16B, Chandigarh

    after the opening day the exhibition will be open

    from 23rd to 27th April daily

    11.00 am to 7.00 pm

    Diwan Manna

    President, PLKA

    ਪੰਜਾਬ ਲਲਿਤ ਕਲਾ ਅਕਾਦਮੀ ਦੀ ਪੇਸ਼ਕਸ਼

    ਦੋਹਰੀ ਸੋਚ

    ਮਨਜੋਤ ਕੌਰ ਦੁਆਰਾ ਸਿਰਜੀਆਂ ਕਲਾਕ੍ਰਿਤਾਂ ਦੀ ਪ੍ਰਦਰਸ਼ਨੀ

    ਚੱਠ ੨੨ ਅਪ੍ਰੈਲ ੨੦੧੯ ਸ਼ਾਮ ੫.੧੫ ਵਜੇ

    ਪੰਜਾਬ ਲਲਿਤ ਕਲਾ ਅਕਾਦਮੀ ਗੈਲਰੀ

    ਪੰਜਾਬ ਕਲਾ ਭਵਨ, ਸੈਕਟਰ ੧੬ ਬੀ, ਚੰਡੀਗੜ੍ਹ

    ਚੱਠ ਵਾਲੇ ਦਿਨ ਤੋਂ ਮਗਰੋਂ

    ਪ੍ਰਦਰਸ਼ਨੀ

    ੨੩ ਤੋਂ ੨੭ ਅਪ੍ਰੈਲ ਤੱਕ ਰੋਜ਼ਾਨਾ ਸਵੇਰੇ ੧੧ ਵਜੇ ਤੋਂ ਸ਼ਾਮ ੭ ਵਜੇ ਤੀਕ

    ਦਰਸ਼ਕਾਂ ਵਾਸਤੇ ਖੁੱਲ੍ਹੀ ਰਹੇਗੀ

    ਦੀਵਾਨ ਮਾਨਾ, ਪ੍ਰਧਾਨ

     

    The exhibition Paradoxically Absurd  addresses the act accepting two mutually contradictory beliefs as correct, often in distinct social contexts. Growth and decline, seen and unseen, outside and inside, macroscopic and microscopic, mundane and surreal, finite and infinite, random and scripted become the common thread to represent the connection between the accepted dichotomies of life.

    Manjot Kaur works with a wide range of media including Books Arts, Installation, Video (2D animation and time-lapse), Sound, and Interactive Performance inquiring the socio-political and anthropological concerns of environment, identity and existence by employing the tools of absurdity, uncertainty, and randomness. The basis of her art practice is to understand the ever-evolving nature of life around us and how nature and humans adapt to changing and sometimes hostile environment. Her work is an interface between science, nature, perception, and scale, inciting a discourse on the social, cultural and personal issues, through the careful representation of objects and narratives rooted in temporal, ephemeral, and entropy. Her work often pertains to the logic of absurd, where absurd is not seen as amusing, foolish or stupid rather as the epistemology of perception and understanding.

     

    She focuses on the notion of on-going, the present and the passing in the process of movement, change, growth, decay, death, birth, evolution, and, existence to generate a feeling of being alive in the fast-growing changing malignant times.

     

    Manjot Kaur (b.1989), Ludhiana, Punjab, India

    MFA (University Gold Medal) in Painting, Government College of Art, Chandigarh, 2012.

     

     

    She has been an artist in residence at Unidee, Citadellarte – Fondazione Pistolleto, Italy, 2018scholarship by Inlaks Shivdasani Foundation, India; Museo Casa Masaccio Centro per l’Arte Contemporanea, San Giovanni Valdarno, Italy  in collaboration with Clark House Initiative, Mumbai, 2018; Khoj International Artists’ Association – Peers18, New Delhi, 2018; Mythos – Land Art Biel/Bienne, Switzerland, 2017; Gram Art Project - funded by FICA, India, 2016; Harmony Art Foundation, Mumbai, India, 2015; Global Nomadic Art Project, India, 2015; and Tellusart, Sweden, 2009. She has participated in Water – A video exhibition, Geumgang Nature Art Biennale, South Korea, 2016; Cairotronica- International Symposium of Electronic and New Media arts, Cairo, Egypt, 2016; 28th National Exhibition of Contemporary Art, SCZCC, Nagpur, India, 2015 and United art Fair, New Delhi, India, 2012.

    She is the recipient of Professional Annual Award, Punjab Lalit Kala Akademi, 2019 & 2018; 30 Under 30 Award, Hindustan Times Youth Forum, 2017; Sohan Qadri Fellowship, 2017; Professional and Student Annual Award, Chandigarh Lalit Kala Akademi, 2017 and 2012.