Nocturnal Alchemy I

by Sukanya Garg

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Size:	39 x 57 inches
Medium:	Pen, Coloured Pencil, Gold Pen, Gold Powder, Acrylic and 22 carat Gold Leaf on Acid-Free Paper (Mounted on Board)
Year:	2021

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The work is inspired by the Pagan belief around the winter solstice in which the moon (feminine) would give birth to the sun (masculine). The title is inspired by Sukanya Garg’s own experience of the moon’s alchemy. During days of intense pain, she often found herself meditating on the moon. Sitting under the night sky, she would wonder how a simple circle on the night’s surface was able to break through the darkness and illuminate the world. It made her see pain is the context of healing, darkness in the context of light, and the harmony of opposites to create a whole.

Description

The work is inspired by the Pagan belief around the winter solstice in which the moon (feminine) would give birth to the sun (masculine). The title is inspired by Sukanya Garg’s own experience of the moon’s alchemy. During days of intense pain, she often found herself meditating on the moon. Sitting under the night sky, she would wonder how a simple circle on the night’s surface was able to break through the darkness and illuminate the world. It made her see pain is the context of healing, darkness in the context of light, and the harmony of opposites to create a whole.

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ABOUT Sukanya Garg

Sukanya Garg explores the human body's intricacies, particularly the perceptions that stem from the constant evolution of cell structures. Her practice is inspired by her unprecedented journey across the world to understand pain and the diverse practices of healing. Sukanya has developed an artistic language that explores life’s fragility and resilience, whilst taking us on a simultaneous path into the body's interiority and the cosmos of the universe. Her practice explores the underlying layers of one’s being, digging deep to unravel the mysteries of identity, perception, reality, and dreams. Understanding how the human perception of these revelations is influenced by an individual’s intrinsic attributes and his or her constantly changing external environment, is what lies at the core of her work. For Sukanya, art is a medium of instilling hope in a turbulent time, such as the one we inhabit today.

A graduate of Public Policy from Duke University, Sukanya Garg’s artistic practice was developed with the guidance of artist Shobha Broota. A trained economist who became an artist, writer, curator, and a poet, her works have been shown at the Melbourne Museum, Australia; Taragaon Museum, Kathmandu; National Museum, Delhi; Academy of Fine Arts, Kolkata; Under the Mango Tree Art Space, Berlin; Užupio Meno Inkubatorius, Vilnius; Centre for Contemporary Art, Bikaner House, Delhi; Palette Art Gallery, Delhi and Dhoomimal Gallery, Delhi among others.

Sukanya was the recipient of the Ravi Jain Memorial Annual Fellowship Award 2021 by Dhoomimal Gallery. Her writings have appeared in several art magazines, journals, and as part of curatorial notes and catalogues. Formerly a writer for STIRworld Magazine, Sukanya has also curated exhibitions and art programs with The Art House at Nita Mukesh Ambani Cultural Centre (NMACC) in Mumbai. She currently lives and works in Delhi.

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Details

Size:	39 x 57 inches
Medium:	Pen, Coloured Pencil, Gold Pen, Gold Powder, Acrylic and 22 carat Gold Leaf on Acid-Free Paper (Mounted on Board)
Year:	2021

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