Iterations

Vida Heydari Contemporary is pleased to present, ‘Iterations’ a group show showcasing works by Aditya Chadar, Harisha Chennangod, Harsha Durugadda, Natasha Singh, and Ravi Morya.

‘Iterations’ traces creative practitioners engaging with the notion of repetition across a spectrum of forms, media, techniques, processes, and thematic domains. It expands on how ‘repetition’ or ‘repeating’ as conceptual frameworks can be utilised to address and expand upon narratives of our memory, experiences, and identity. An eclectic, philosophical, and literary approach guides the constitution of Harisha Chennangod’s, and Aditya Chadar’s canvases. While Chennangod’s sharp, geometric lines overlap one another to create contemplative sites of minimalist abstraction, the recurring appearance of Chadar’s figures are inspired from the Hindu philosophy of Tapas as a bridge between different aspects of one’s psyche against the life process of creation, and regeneration.

Differently, in the polymorphous methodologies employed by Ravi Morya, and Natasha Singh, the artworks evince reflections that extend upon repetition's procedural, and operational complexities. Morya’s superimposed surfaces made manifest from diverse materials hint towards cyclical, and layered qualities of our being, while Singh’s sculptures translate linkages between materialities, time, and personal experiences through repetitive patterns and formats. Differently, Durugadda extends this notion as a performative interaction between his sculptures, and the audiences as a site of affective evaluation.

The exhibition 'Iterations' is an attempt at a discursive engagement around the aesthetic, and phenomenological dimensions of repetition, emphasising its role in the construction of meaning within contemporary visual arts. It is concerned with the act’s consequences, and conclusions when employed by the artists within respective socio-cultural contexts.