"Paradox (on the poetry by Pilar Paz Pasamar)" an exhibition of photographs by Ajay Sharma at Instituto Cervantes, 48, Hanuman Road, Connaught Place (CP) > 3rd September to 3rd October 2015

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Time : 
3rd September : 7:00 pm - Inauguration
4th September to 3rd October : 
Tuesday to Friday : 11:00 am - 7:00 pm
Saturdays & Sundays : 6:00 pm - 8:00 pm 
Mondays - Closed

Entry : Free

Venue : Instituto Cervantes, 48, Hanuman Road, Connaught Place (CP), New Delhi - 110001
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Area : Connaught Place (CP)

Event Description : "Paradox (on the poetry by Pilar Paz Pasamar)" an exhibition of photographs by Ajay Sharma

About the exhibition: Last year the Indian artist Ajay Sharma was in Spain, thanks to the arts residence program carried out by Neilson Gallery (Grazalema, Spain) and NIV Gallery (New Delhi, India). During his stay he had the opportunity to meet and discover the poetry of Pilar Paz Pasamar. This exhibition is the result of the deep impact that that discovery made in him. This exhibition is possible thank to the support of Basu Foundation.

Art statement: “When I think about my existence in space, I have the feeling that we are just witnessing our body in time. For me nothing dies or is born, it just appears for a while. It is a transformation of energy. And we are a witness. Death is the absence of life. Through this performance I try to come to terms with the enigma of life and time, the presence and absence of the body, a form disappears, images represent this duality. At a time when we are exploring the idea of an expanding universe, the big bang theory, the black hole mystery that represents absence. This mystery in my imagination represents death. 
In the performance both figures are connected in that they are an imprint of death,, the white cloth covering the body represents death in Hinduism and the outline of a body filled with seed that slow disappears, absence. Both exist and at the same time do not exist. The act of the pigeons eating the seeds is a metaphor for this dual state.” (Ajay Sharma)

About the artist: Born in Deoghar (Jharkhand) in 1986, started his studied in painting at Kornik School of fine art Deoghar, followed by a Bachelor of Fine Arts at the Faculty of Visual Art, Banaras Hindu University, and a Master of Fine Arts at Jamia Millia Islamia, New Delhi. His artworks have been on show, among other, at Vadhera Art gallery, NIV Art Gallery, Wonderwall, Lalit Kala Acadmy, Sangeet Natak Academy and Rabindra Bhawan, India Art Fair, and Korean Culture Center in Delhi, Kala Shrot in Lucknow, Gallery Gitanjali and Center for Alternative Photography in Goa, Neilson Gallery in Grazalema (Spain), Taipei Photo Art fair (Taiwan).

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