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The Shape of Home: Tanmoy Samanta

Past exhibition
11 November - 30 December 2021
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Open a larger version of the following image in a popup: Tanmoy Samanta, The Shape of Home - VI, 2021

Tanmoy Samanta b. 1973

The Shape of Home - VI, 2021
Pigment and rice paper on paper board
(HSN CODE: 970110)
13 inches (left)
11 Inches (right)
Set of 2
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These works are about memory and the idea of home; about longing, belonging and unbelonging. They are about the presence and absence; evocation and poignancy. The stencil like images on...
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These works are about memory and the idea of home; about longing, belonging and unbelonging. They are about the presence and absence; evocation and poignancy. The stencil like images on the cut-out surfaces are an act of assemblage of memory of different times - some subdued and others stark. They are in the shapes of objects at home—some carefully preserved, forgotten or discarded, heirlooms, layered with tactile experiences and mind-travel to the constellations.v
The shapes that are new to Tanmoy's work have come as a surprise to him in the process of organizing some old and new work during the lockdown months. In a few works he liked some parts, not the whole. So he cut them and assembled. He retained the irregular shapes that were created and they made him think of "kintsugi", the Japanese tradition of celebrating the imperfect and brokenness. One such work led to another to create the shapes in his new works.
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Exhibitions

The Shape of Home, TARQ, Mumbai, 2021

Publications

Spiralled Memories, Reflections on Tanmoy Samanta's The Shape of Home
Catalogue Essay by Ranjit Hoskote
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