Title: Contemporary Folk Tale
Medium: Cloth and Rope
Nature of Work: Land Art (The work is done in collaboration with Ashraf Elhady)
Medium: Cloth and Rope
Nature of Work: Land Art (The work is done in collaboration with Ashraf Elhady)
Size : Variable
Date of production: Feb, 2017
Description: The Interplay of stories and visual is what defines this work. There is an investigation between environment, symbols, folk tales, ritual and visual.
Date of production: Feb, 2017
Description: The Interplay of stories and visual is what defines this work. There is an investigation between environment, symbols, folk tales, ritual and visual.
The elements for the work were originally located at the site which includes a bridge connecting the village, a football field in the semi – dried seasonal river passing under the bridge, bamboo armatures of the mythological figures of Godess Durga and Lord Kārttikeya originally built by the native people to be immersed on the tenth day of Ashvin month according to hindu religion. The meaning of these concept elements in the environment and connecting them with sight lines resulting from the imagination of the viewer proposes the integration of the visual. Together they complement the visual balance with nature without creating any harm to the original things already present on site.
The symbols and elements of folk tale and myth develop with the indigenous left over remains from the celebration of the festival.
It brings four mythical elements that make up base for the work - qualitative effect of large means, the annual festive ritual, the kind where the feelings of women differ from men in the idea and the concept of reproduction.
The choice of red for covering the elements contrasts the visual with the green of nature. The sliced red line is extension for the intellectual thought and confirms the visual lines that link the elements. Hence, the environment becomes the basis for determining the choice for this land art. The work is a visual view of the relationship between men and women, two cultures coming from different places in the environment and the exchange of ideas and concepts through an intermediary nature of the folk tale on the continuation of coding for this project.
The site before initiating the work
