Ellipsis - Nandan Ghiya's Spectral Emanations

" To thine own self be true…

It seems likely that instead of holding one stationary, fundamental self… we are all just a disordered, vulnerable shape shifting collection of traits and histories and tendencies that seem to wax and wane over time. And these various ‘selves, jostle for distinction from moment to moment — organically transforming with the click of the mouse, in a blink of an eye. "

Nandan Ghiya

Derived from a Greek origin, the term Ellipsis means the omission from speech or writing of a word or words that are superfluous or able to be understood from contextual clues. The artist Nandan Ghiya has visually omitted contextual redundancy through this set of spectral emanations. The artist has tried to depict the rhetorical complexities of the image culture through a hypnotic representation combining vectorized surface, vintage photographs & spectral designs. The overall entrancing outcome, grabs the viewers’ attention, inducing them to venture out on a journey of discovering changes, which are hidden beneath each layer.

"Ghiya’s work is an affiliation to regional history and collective identity. Yet it resists rote hegemonies of the past - new iconographies and meta-narratives inspired by digital culture foster alchemy of transience, splintering and fragmenting across time and space as the works mediate on an in-between state."

Visual surfeit and obsessive self-representation play a vital role in today’s digital era. Ironically, the artist distorts existing self-portraits, by introducing glitches and pixilation its surface. In the process, Ghiya encounters, escapes and resurrects new identities while unveiling the deep mutability of his images.

Generating an optical illusion, the artist accentuates an interesting display inter playing with form and space. Re-framing the contexts into subjectivity and authority, the artist alters his frames emphasizing on- the thresholds that need to be crossed, the boundaries that need to be stretched, the additions, subtractions and multiplications to form that need to be embraced.

The young artist’s experimental art challenges our perception of the status quo and thus presents a new perspective of the young generation from a country with long standing histories and cultures within a fast globalizing world. Rupture and transformation are therefore the leitmotiv of Nandan’s peripatetic imagery, approaching the viewer with a series of failed yet forever attachments: to location, history and memory. This puzzled revamp to every image, finally encapsulates into a picture in its entirety.

Image Courtesy: Sakshi Gallery & Nandan Ghiya

Show on display until 15th February, 2020.