The second chapter of the Art Centrix Grant offers a look at how the practices of Sculpture and Installation blur the thin lines between disciplines. It explores how our encounters with art, space and materials, are not fixed in time as a single event, but ever-changing.
Through its grants, Art Centrix gives a platform to young artists whose creativity transcends categorisation in terms of materials and media. Sibdas Sengupta curates the second edition, resulting in the exhibition Edges of Encounter. This edition specifically focuses on sculpture and installation. “Envisioned by Art Centrix Space, the Art Centrix Grant is a platform shaped by the urgencies of our time—where contemporary artistic practices are not bound by disciplinary limits but instead blur, question, and reconfigure them,” Sengupta says.
“What once defined the sculptural is no longer sufficient to frame the complexities of today’s practice. Instead, new vocabularies are emerging, inviting us to reconsider what constitutes sculptural sensibilities in contemporary times.” ~Sibdas Sengupta, Curator
Geetanjali Bayan, Pathik Sahoo, Poojan Gupta, Prithwish Daw, Souvik Das, Sumit Naik and Suraj Kumar Sahu are the shortlisted emerging artists for the grant. Geetanjali Bayan specialises in “thread-based sculptural Cartographies,” and Pathik Sahoo engages with “iron wall-mounted landscapes.” Poojan Gupta explores the body through medical blister packs, while Prithwish Daw creates “wall-mounted architectural abstractions.” Souvik Das makes ceramics and Sumit Naik creates layered, drawing-based sculptures. Finally, Suraj Kumar Sahu “engages with ruins and heritage fragments from Odisha.”
“At the heart of Edges of Encounter lies an inquiry into how repetition informs form, making processes, and material sensibilities. These aspects are intimately tied to artistic subjectivity and identity. The exhibition unfolds around the notion that artistic consciousness is shaped not in isolation, but through an ongoing negotiation with temporal and spatial encounters, where encounters are often fleeting yet deeply formative. This curatorial premise proposes the encounter as an event that is not fixed in time but is continually changing. It is through these encounters that the form, material, and thematic choices of an artwork takes shape.”
“In asking where the ‘complete self’ of the artist resides, the exhibition suggests that identity may not be singular or stable, but rather formed in and through these recurrent ruptures and reconciliations with temporality. The encounter, then, becomes a return for a site of longing and becoming.”
“As a curatorial proposal, Edges of Encounter aims to understand how the sights and spaces of encounter transform the (artistic) self. While bringing these seven artists together, the larger goal of Edges of Encounter is to explore the visual form and consistencies of the subject matter while anchoring back to specific events and encounters, and examining how these recur in various forms within their artistic practice.”
Exhibition Details:
- Date: 26th July 2025
- Venue: Art Centrix Space.
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