sathyanand mohan

Born in Kerala, 1975. BFA in Painting from The Government College of Fine Arts, Trivandrum, 1994-1998. MFA in Printmaking from the Faculty of Fine Arts, Ms University Baroda, 1998-2000. 

"Another kind of work that I do is what may perhaps be called private metaphors wherein I try to evoke various aspects of the self and attempt to work it out at the level of the visual in a somewhat playful and ironic manner. Play and Irony are generally employed, in literature and painting, to draw attention to the language and its materiality.

If nominally we are at present living under the singe of 'realism', then these works could be said to be trying to obscure that notion a little by bringing into play different registers of language(s) culled form quite different contexts and sources which are yet, somewhat like the uses of college employed by the Surrealists, stuck together in the work by some notion of the 'real'. The fantastic subject matter of works like "Portents", the sources of which are, among other things, those medieval broadsheets illustrating the apocalypse-to-come (strange signs in the sky etc.),- allows me to suspend the gravity of the real, and permits me the liberty of engaging in some play acting of my own.