Pratap Morey b. 1981
Superimpose 2.0.7, 2019
Ink on Archival Print
(HSN Code: 970110)
(HSN Code: 970110)
20.4 x 12.5 inches
Copyright Pratap Morey, 2019
Here realistic but sometimes blurred white drawings of gates & windows of chawls (Kandivali, Mumbai) are actually superimposed over pictures and photos of that reality, they seem to in fact...
Here realistic but sometimes blurred white drawings of gates & windows of chawls (Kandivali, Mumbai) are actually superimposed over pictures and photos of that reality, they seem to in fact produce a world that primarily exists within the drawn projection - the drawing is the reality while the photos (under construction sites in Mumbai) underneath, morphed and mirrored, create some sense of an intoxicated reality no longer real. The reality of photos, and the material recognition of that landscape, and all in life that goes along with it produces a certain surreal ‘lost-landscape of reality’ - a reality so real that one finds it intoxicating, an almost a new parallel to reality but not real...