CHEMOULD PRESCOTT ROAD, MUMBAI, PRESENTS A SOLO BOOTH AT ART DUBAI OF GIGI SCARIA.

Gigi Scaria, Video, Amusement Park, Duration -
5 minutes and 19 secs, Single chanelled video – 2009

Gigi Scaria is an artist who lives and works in New Delhi and has been intrinsically interested in the urban landscape a city provides. The booth presentation for Art Dubai 2010 emerges from the concept of the city as an amusement park, its changing nature, and phenomenon of the urban settings we dwell in.

With Dubai as a pivotal landmark of this changing landscape, (sans cynicism) it is interesting for Scaria to show within this milieu of Dubai as a backdrop for his work.

Artist Statement:

Ever since civilisation was formed and nurtured, the city has become a fascinating phenomenon. The world started to live up to the expectations of the city and the city continuously demanded a space, character and logic of its own, in order to fulfill the aspirations of an urban nomad. Notions of politics, identity, nationalism, industrialisation, modernism, lifestyle, crime, madness, spirituality
and anything and everything that the human being has been proud to assert as his/her own are constantly produced and consumed by the city.

Indulging in the core of urban life made the urbanite think of himself/herself as a romantic outsider to the system that they deeply inhaled. They wanted to get out of the clutches of the system. Many who went to the wilderness of nature never returned. Many ran away from all that they belonged to, but failing to conform with the ‘outside’, came back with much more intensity and conviction that urbanism is the spiritual condition of modern man.

Gigi Scaria, Wheel, Digital image on archival paper
- 80 x 60 inches – 2009

Amusement Park is a logical extension of an urban romanticism. Here in this park they crawled, flew, fell and screamed with a momentary transcendence of the self. A self never returned to its original self ever.


 

 

 

 

 


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