Palash Bhattacharjee: June 2011

Saturday, June 18, 2011

drop the matter

Single Channel Video
4 Minutes 50 Seconds
First Show at Chittagong Festival Art Exhibition,
2011

This video has an urge to be released from matters.

Video Still

I took some of the moments from my childhood memories.

I recorded the video with marbles of different colors and sizes. Here, they are dropping from the upstairs continuously. All marbles continuously dropped one after another and then more . The Video displayed on the gloomy and messy stairs of Gallery . I made an audio visual presentation which created an illusion when public climbed the stairs.....

Video
Drop the Matter from Palash Bhattacharjee on Vimeo.

Installation Image from Dhaka Art Summit 2012, Gallery at Bangladesh Shilpakala Academy Dhaka.

'Palash Bhattacharjee entered the scene armed with an array of performative arsenals. Alongside photo-video installations developed from his performances and site-specific installations, he inserted another crucial element, namely sound. From his early works based on photo and video installations in 2009 to that of his more recent near-absurd performances and video installations, he articulates the neural through the experiential. Since 2011, he set in motion a practice that forked into two divergent and also overlapping strands – video and performance. His single or multi-channel videos and performances are the result of his meditations on body's communion with spatial reality often set in a temporal framework. His reorganizes multiple approaches as he sets out to restore an event from life, which is at once overwhelming and abstract. Muted and distant in their articulation, his works seem to test the water at the edge. Still, Palash's 'reality' leaves no room for illusion.'

-New Media the locus of rebirth, Shahman Moishan with Sharmillie Rahman and Mustafa Zaman, page 36-37, 22th Issue, Depart Magazine, ISSN 2310-6832