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TITLE: COMMUNICATION IS DISPOSABLE
DIMENSIONS: 30CM X 60 CM
MEDIUM: PRINT ON PAPER
CREATION DATE: 30TH AUGUST 2021
1. Published in the first print edition of pendora magazine's dead slow. visit https://pendora.co.uk/deadslow for more.
2. Selected for 'Opposites attract' an international exhibition curated by Artiste culture and Xence labs. visithttps://www.artisteculture.com/copy-of-xencelabs
This work talks about our agency of choices on the internet and the way it drives our culture. Barry Schwartz in his book Paradox of choices talks about the increasing number of choices creating a false sense of abundance in resources and hence making our culture disposable. It holds true for OTT platforms, food ordering applications, clothing websites and dating applications. They offer the user with so many choices, that making the final choice leaves one with anxiety. Which one to choose? Simultaneously, it also affects the way we communicate on platforms like Instagram, which is driven by the replenishment of content with a down swipe. Once again, the abstract design of the application works on the model of re-loading and providing the user with fresh content every second. This creates a sense of abundance, and when resources become abundant, they are hardly cared for. Thus continuously making the content disposable. During the time of peak pandemic, when each one of us had to isolate from the society, communicating with friends on instagram felt disposable too. Our conversations were distracted by the ever-present choices and abundance of other things. Other things included the news of people dying around me, hate speeches delivered by India's ruling party against religious minorities, the abundance of things to watch, food to order, clothes to wear, etc etc.
In this artwork I concentrate through my words, painted portraits and digital collage on the disposability of communication. We seem to be evolving culturally everyday, but every now and then comes a day when communication seems disposable. I constantly visit the past through my imagery of static noise, televisions sets, 90s windows format. I reminisce the first Indian TV channel DD National, which used to broadcast limited shows throughout the day, and for certain hours of the day it broadcasted a blank screen that said 'We regret the interruption' .
The work does not try to deliver a scathing judgement on our disposable culture but stands silently and humorously documents the observations.
The instagram window screens are inspired by Misha Petrick's designs.
