himanshu s.

Himanshu tends to be a bit of an anarchist and very much a non-conformist.

He says “ we, in the next generation, have taken those strategies & don’t worry if it looks like art or not then, hopefully you try to make it, not better, but you make it in a way that makes sense…. it’s better because it’s right now…for me everything is full of contradictions; there are only different degrees of contradictions…detachment; irony; use of commonplace objects & imagery; use of secondary imagery; repeated units, mechanical processes, linguistic & conceptual concerns; interest in perpetual psychology & the role of the viewer; fascination with both the concept  of  reductivism & the work of Duchamp; acceptance of meaning latent in different materials & in the processes of making; openness to the use of any & all materials; indifference to the apparent divisions between high & low cultures ; indifference to the distinction between abstraction & representation; denial of hierarchy; denial of absolute value; commitment to a notion of the radical based on continual questioning of fundamental assumptions; primacy given to simplicity, directness, clarity & immediacy… some  of  my  work  makes  the existing constraints visible, for  me  it is  a  vision of how the future might be and also an argument against what the present is… for this purpose most of the times i extend the area of practice from the studio/gallery to the public space… i feel a work of art is only possible in the context of the whole of society… people should come together because private conversations aren’t so effective… everyone can learn something from every correction; that way each one learns from others problems as well as his own...I believe in art, which speaks to the power of connectedness and establishes bonds... art that calls us into relationships.”

Himanshu S. currently lives and works in Mumbai.

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