Palash Bhattacharjee: July 2017

Sunday, July 30, 2017

Unlock!

Three channel video installation, 2017
First show: 22nd National Art Exhibition, National Art gallery, Shilpakala Academy, Dhaka 2017.

In this three channel video work, I captured some awareness procedures of our day to day life which are connected to personal entrance or intrusion to anywhere. Through this repetitive performative act, with the mass awareness and safety related experiences, person's psychic repression is expressed. In the first one, the act of knocking door is present. In second, shows the locking of the door. The third, entering and exiting by opening a door and closing the door is shown.

Unlock! from Palash Bhattacharjee on Vimeo. sample of the three channel video work

Image from 22nd National art Exhibition at National Art Gallery, Shilpakala Academy, Dhaka 2017.

'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