It’s about organising a future by annihilating the unrealized practicality of the existing reality. It’s about making merry and creating history, overlooking a world walking towards dissolution. A world filled with innovative ideas and thoughts waiting to stretch its arms towards perfection fall flat every time we search for kindness and wisdom in it. Thus carelessly proving it to be eloquently imperfect. A Part / Apart, the exhibition tries its best to talk about and question this suppressed reality of which we are all proud and euphoric.

A lost world filled with nostalgia, gone by times loaded with memories, visuals that had always been cerebral, unutteredaching’s, and a heart filled with reminiscence—that’s what I relate to when I see those bold horizontal strokes of charcoal and pastels running through the images of crows and swans, making them look meagre and grievously inconsequential in the drawings on paper (mediums being dry pastel, charcoal, ink, and graphite) by Atin Basak. They are numb, yet they tend to express themselves profoundly, somehow symbolising the materiality of the present very perceptibly.

We human beings are apotheosis, gaining the sovereignty of being the greatest living creature on this planet with our inventions, creations, and fructifications, keeping technology as our perennial partner and savior in many ways. We have touched the Moon, yet on a separate aspect, we tend to invalidate the fact that just like we are citizens of this planet we call Earth, and we avidly call it our own, the same way these cramped and tender creatures like sparrows, crows, and even pigeons, who are literally struggling for their existence, are also an elemental part of the Earth family. We graduate from our existence, overlooking the fact that we are touching extinction.