Solla Sollew
How do we navigate a world where solutions to environmental problems often bring new challenges? Where, for example, exhibitions on climate change may themselves have a high carbon footprint? In Solla Sollew, artist Shanthamani Muddaiah asked us to, quite literally, negotiate our way forward. In the gallery space, visitors were invited to contour their bodies through this installation. It prompted us to reflect on the disruption of Earth's ecological balance, for which there are no straightforward solutions.
Medium: Installation, Burnt wood, Lights, Paint, Plywood
Year: 2023
Team
Shanthamani Muddaiah
Visual Artist
Shanthamani Muddaiah is a visual artist who lives and works in Bangalore. She has a Masters of Fine Arts from M.S. University, Gujarat. Her practice is intimately linked to the physicality of the materials she employs. She frequently uses charcoal as a material in her sculptures and installations. In addition to recycling material, such as charcoal, she also makes use of familiar Western myths and endows them with new meaning. In the course of her career, she has also received the Charles Wallace Fellowship in 2004, and the National Junior Fellowship from the Ministry of Tourism and Culture, New Delhi for 2006 – 2008.
