We are constantly exposed to a range of images and text on a daily basis. Often these appear to us in the form of news reports, advertisements, photographs, social media posts and in many other formats. We also sometimes have our personal archives of information in the form of texts and images – things which we might have collected over a span of time or certain things of personal interests.

This workshop is an exercise to understand how this excess of information around us can be absorbed or incorporated into an art practice. How this information goes beyond their visual representation and shapes up our perception of the world around us and how we can act as someone who intervenes and recreates this information as an act of world-viewing and world building.

The intention of this workshop is to have something process oriented which may or may not be conclusive. It will be drawing based and will involve different processes of mark making, cutting, collaging, making paper cut outs and maybe even writing.

Important: Interested and committed participants (18+) are expected to attend the entire duration of the workshop. Basic drawing and writing material will be provided. Every participant will be required to bring 5 – 10 images or/and text excerpts which they feel might relate to the themes of memory, identity, ecology, gender, ruins and control. These can be news reports, social media posts, personal collection of photographs, advertisements, any archival material, maps, excerpts or images from books or anything from print media.

The onsite workshop with limited seats will be held at Vadehra Art Gallery

Shrimanti Saha is an artist, working in the medium of drawing, painting and animation. In her work, Saha draws references from a range of sources like history, literature, mythology, comic books, art history, science fiction, philosophy, miniature painting, movies, architecture, encyclopaedias, news reports as well as memory, conversation and personal experiences. This leads to the formation of layered story structures that can be construed as a personal mythology, alternative history or as an anthology of untold stories; touching upon the themes of identity, gender, violence and exploitation.

Saha completed her BVA and MVA from M.S. University, Vadodara. She has participated in various group shows in India and abroad. She received the Inlaks fine arts award and the Fica Amol Vadehra art grant. She has also been part of international artist residencies like the Bemis Center for Contemporary arts, USA; Vermont Studio Center and Art Omi, New York.