in the waves and underneath

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in the waves and underneathpooja iranna

10.09.10 - 09.10.10

Don’t be absorbed with the waterwheel’s motion.Turn your head and gaze at the river. You say,“But I’m looking there already.” There are several signsin eyes that see all the way to the ocean. Bewildermentis one. Those who study foam and flotsam near the edgehave purposes, and they’ll explain them at length!Those who look out to sea become the sea,and they can’t speak about that. On the beachthere’s desire-singing and rage-ranting,the elaborate language-dance of personality,but in the waves and underneath there’s no volition,no hypocrisy, just love forming and unfolding.—Rumi

Pooja Iranna’s exploration of the human psyche has been a long-standing one. She recalls having witnessed, in her formative years, the ultimate submission of a generation grappling with the bewildering demands of a consumerist, modern society, their illumined hopes and dreams of the past era consigned to memory. The silhouette of the city’s skyline—once a spangle of minarets and tomes being replaced by an ugly tangle of multistoried constructions reaching up to claim the skies—also made its imprint in her conscious memory. The architectural spaces, in her work, speak of the human condition.

In Pooja’s pictorial world, images appear from past and present times, capturing her impressions of the city she calls her home, as it metamorphoses into a metascape she barely recognises. Standing at the edge of this precipice, part-real, part-fantasy, she seems to say to the viewer, ‘Come, travel into my space and inhabit my world. Listen to the unspoken voices of the walls whispering their secrets to you…’

In Pooja’s world, there is the feeling of cosmic loneliness, the spectre of ‘an abandoned world encased in glacial solitude…’ Who is more alone? He who feels his own seclusion or he who feels the solitude of the world? In the waves and underneath, there’s no volition, no hypocrisy, just love forming and unfolding.

—Ina Puri, New Delhi, September 2010

Another new beginning | Video | Duration 7.49 mins | 2010

Confluence | Staple Pins | H93 x L123 x W11cms | 2010

Everything Is Not Straight | Staple Pins | H-23 x L112 x W14 cms | 2010

The Twist | Staple Pins | H33 x 104 cms Together | 2010

Up & Down The Trail | Staple Pins | H35 x L260 x W14 cms | 2010

Standing at the Edge | Mix Media on canvas | 84” x 60” (dyptich) | 2010

Unspoken voices | Mix media on canvas | 42” x 60” | 2010

Fortress | Mix media on canvas | 42” x 60” | 2010

Untitled-Mix media I | Mix media on canvas | 12” x 12” | 2010

Untitled-Mix media II | Mix media on canvas | 12” x 12” | 2010

Untitled-Mix media III | Mix media on canvas | 12” x 12” | 2010

Untitled-Mix media IV | Mix media on canvas | 12” x 12” | 2010

Untitled-Mix media V | Mix media on canvas | 12” x 12” | 2010

Untitled-Mix media VI | Mix media on canvas | 12” x 12” | 2010

Untitled-Mix media VII | Mix media on canvas | 12” x 12” | 2010

Untitled-Mix media VIII | Mix media on canvas | 12” x 12” | 2010

Untitled-I | Staple Pins | 9 x 9 x 3 cms | 2010

Untitled-II | Staple Pins | 6 x 9 x 2.5 cms | 2010

Untitled-III | Staple Pins | 6 x 9 x 2.5 cms | 2010

Untitled-IV | Staple Pins | 11 x 7 x 3 cms | 2010

Untitled-V | Staple Pins | 10 x 10 x 3 cms | 2010

Untitled-VI | Staple Pins | 14 x 10 x 2.5 cms | 2010

Untitled-VII | Staple Pins | 13 x 8 x 2.5 cms | 2010

Untitled-VIII | Staple Pins | 14 x 10 x 2.5 cms | 2010

Drawing I | Ink & pencil on paper | 20 x 29 cms | 2010

Drawing II | Ink & pencil on paper | 20 x 29 cms | 2010

Drawing III | Ink & pencil on paper | 20 x 29 cms | 2010

Drawing IV | Ink & pencil on paper | 20 x 29 cms | 2010

Drawing V | Ink & pencil on paper | 20 x 29 cms | 2010

Drawing VI | Ink & pencil on paper | 20 x 29 cms | 2010

Drawing VII | Ink & pencil on paper | 20 x 29 cms | 2010

Drawing VIII | Ink & pencil on paper | 20 x 29 cms | 2010

Qualification

M.F.A. in Painting, College of Art, New Delhi, 1995B.F.A. in Painting, College of Art, New Delhi, 1991

Scholarships and Awards

Junior Fellowship by Dept. of Culture, Govt. of India, 1998-99 National Scholarship by Dept. of Culture, Govt of India, 1992-95 Charles Wallace India Trust award, 2002Outstanding Women Achievers award by (YFLO), a wing of FICCI, 2009Celeste Prize Finalist, 2010 for Video ‘Another New Beginning’. Among Twenty Shortlisted for Skoda Prize 2010, India. Solo Shows

2010 : ‘In the Waves and Underneath’, Palette Art Gallery, New Delhi.2009 : ‘Of Human Endeavor’, The Guild, Mumbai, Essay by Deeksha Nath.2003-04 : ‘Metamorphic Mathematics’, at Chitra Kala Parishat, B’lore, The Guild Art Gallery, Mumbai and at Sridharani Gallery, Delhi, Essay by Peter Nagy.2002 : ‘Reflections’, Wimbledon School of Art, London1999 : House of Cards’, Art Inc, New Delhi, Essay by Roobina Karode.1996 : ‘Paper Works’, Shridharani Gallery, New Delhi.

Selected Group Shows

2010 : International Streaming Festival, 6th Edition,The Hague, Netherlands. 2010 : Liquid Cities & Temporary Identities, Video Art & Architecture Event,Netherlands 2010 : Feminine Recitals , Curated by Veerangana Solanki, Exhibit 320, New Delhi. 2010 : Invisible Cities , Aicon, New York 2010 : Size Matters or…Does It?, Inaugaral show of Latitude 28, New Delhi.2009 : Lost in an Urban Maze, Palette Art Gallery, New Delhi.2009 : The Landscapes of Where, curated by Nancy Adajania for Galerie Mirchandani + Steinruecke, Mumbai.2009 : Zip Files, curated by Ranjit Hoskote, for Foundation B&G and Tao Art Gallery, Mumbai.

POOJA IRANNA

Born New Delhi, India, 1969.

2008 : Group Show at Gallery 1x1, Dubai.2008 : Recent works by Pooja Iranna & Sojwal Sawant, Gallery Espace, Delhi.2008 : Trends & Trivia by Bhavana Kakkar at Visual Arts Centre, Hong Kong. 2008 : Walk The Line, curated by Ranjita Chaney, Avanthay Contemporary, Zurich.2007 : ‘Telling it Like it is’, Group Show at The Gallery, In Cork Street, London by Gallery Espace.2007 : ‘India Revealed’, Curated by Antonio Manfred, at Cam, Casoria Contemporary Art Museum, Naples, Italy.2007 : ‘Reading Paint’ by Gallery Soulflower, Bangkok.2007 : 2007 Korea-India Contemporary Art Exchange Exhibition, Seoul, Korea.2007 : ‘Paper Flute’ curated by Johny M.L. at Gallery Espace, Delhi.2007 : Emerging India’, by Art Alive, at The Henry Moore Gallery, London.2007 : ‘Does Size Matter I &II’, curated by Bhavna Kakar, N.Delhi & Mumbai.2006 : ‘Avatars of the Object’, curated by Nancy Adajania, for The Guild Art Gallery, Mumbai2006 : ‘Making of Divinity’, curated by Ina Puri, for Sakshi Art Gallery, Mumbai.2006 : ‘Around Architecture’, curated by Marta Jakimowicz, for Colab Art & Architecture, Bangalore.2006 : ‘New Paradigms III’ by Gallery Threshold, N.Delhi.2005 : ‘Bridges, Exploring New Paradigms’, Art Alive Gallery, New Delhi.2005 : ‘Towards Abstraction’, curated by Marta Jakimowicz for Gallery Threshold, New Delhi.2005 : ‘Negotiating Matters/S’ curated by Roobina Karode, for Anant Gallery, New Delhi.2005 : ‘Resonance’, curated by K.T.Ravindran, for Golden Jubilee of Lalit Kala Akademi.2003-04 : ‘Dots and Pixels’ Digital Art, at Gallery Espace, New Delhi, & Gallery Sumokha, Bangalore2003 : ‘Dreams: Projects Unrealised’, curated by Johny M.L. and Mrinal Kulkarni, New Delhi.2003 : ‘Migration, City, Home’ curated by Amit Mukhopadhaya, Kolkata.2002 : Words and Images, National Gallery of Mordern Art, Mumbai.2002 : ‘Closet Closets’ curated by Mrinal Kulkarni, New Delhi.2001 : Two Painter’s Show With Iranna G.R. at Apparao Galleries, Chennai. 2001 : ‘North Zone Group’ Curated by Probir Gupta At Tao Art Gallery, Mumbai. 2001 : ‘Kaleidoscope’ – Isu International Art Gallery, Singapore 2001 : ‘Art In Heridity’, Habiart Gallery, New Delhi. 2001 : ‘Engendering – Images Of Women’, The Guild Art Gallery, Mumbai. 1999 : ‘Edge Of The Century’, Curated by Amit Mukhopadhaya, New Delhi. 1999 : ‘Two Women Artists’, The Guild, Mumbai 1998 : Group Show By Five Artists, Gallery Espace, New Delhi. 1993 : Two Women Artist Show, Shridharani Gallery, New Delhi. 1991 : ‘Search For Young Talent’ by Vadhera Art Gallery, New Delhi.

Videography ‘From The End To The End’-2009 Single channel projection in loop with sound,5.40 Min Duration -‘Of Human Endeavor’, Solo Exhibition, The Guild, Mumbai ,2009 -‘A Tribute To The Lens’, To Commemorate The World Photographical Day, Curated by Sandeep Biswas , M.F.Hussain Gallery, New Delhi,2010. ‘Another New Beginning’2010 Single channel projection in loop with sound,7.50 Min Duration -‘In The Waves And Underneath’, Palette Art Gallery, New Delhi. 2010 -Finalist For Celeste Prize 2010, Exhibiting In New York, Dec 2010 -International Streaming Festival,6th Edition, The Hague, Netherlands, Dec 2010 -Liquid Cities & Temporary Identities, Video Art & Architecture Event, The Hague,Netherlands,Dec2010. ‘Swaas’ 2010 Single channel projection in loop with sound,3.45 Min Duration -Commonwealth Show, Curated By Roopika Chawla, New Delhi 2010 -International Streaming Festival, 6th Edition, The Hague, Netherlands, Dec 2010 -Liquid Cities & Temporary Identities, Video Art & Architecture Event, The Hague, Netherlands, Dec2010. ‘Standing Strong’ 2010 Single channel projection in loop with sound,6.30 Min Duration -‘ Feminine Recitals, Curated by Veerangana Solanki, Exhibit 320,New Delhi, 2010 Selected Published Writings By Pooja Iranna 1999 : Catalogue For B.M.Kamath’s Solo Show At Shridharani Gallery, New Delhi. : ‘Through Another Journey’,Two Artist Show, Guild Art Gallery, Mumbai. 2002 : ‘Metamorphoses of Existence’, Lalit Kala Contemporary 45, A Publication of Lalit Kala Contemporary, India-Jan. 2002 : ‘We Come, We Eat, We Sleep’, Essay on work of N.S. Harsha that represented India a The Fukuoka Festival, Published In Lalit Kala Contemporary, A Publication of Lalit Kala Academy, India-June. 2009 : I Seldom Take Images At Random’, Publishedi Art Inc,Vol.1, No.1 Pooja Iranna lives and works in New Delhi, India

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