Narayan Chandra Sinha’s solo exhibition, Firelight, brings together a rigorous practice installed in situ in an old building at Queens Park, Kolkata, defined by a deep-seated desire to express one that is burnt to ashes in its own light. Like firelight which is trapped in the dichotomy of burning everything it touches, yet illuminating everything around it, Sinha’s solo inhabits the space like the embers of a fire that continue to burn long after it seems to have been put out. Firelight chooses to explore the deep-seated ideas we use to find distinctions between the various classifications created by us. It is an ode to the experiences we, as human beings fail to acknowledge in spite of them being firmly attached to our basic methods of perceiving. The world, which we inhabit, is full of dichotomies built on varied kinds of markers and identifiers. Each of these markers can be interpreted based on how one chooses to feel about them. Looking at things simplistically is a technique often used to label everything around us in hope to secure an accessible way to define. This often leads to a journey, consisting of mere mechanical and materialistic endeavors and transforms us into machines bereft of essence. We negate the importance of Nature, our source and the organic ways through which each and every being is connected. Firelight explores these raw and intense emotions and tries to pin down the presence of opposing components, which coexist together in the form of basic elemental units. It wishes to deconstruct the societal filters and experience emotions and feelings for what they turn out to be more than often, full of layers, contradictory and boundless. After the tremendous success of Firelight, Iram Art is taking "Wounds of Time" curated by Noelle Kadar and a solo by Narayan Sinha to Basel Switzerland from 13-19 June
