Here the architecture of SuryaKund / Madhyavarti at Jawahar Kala Kendra (JKK) is seen as an altar. ANTARHIT becomes an extension to fire/sun worship - a sense of sacred through visual liturgy where the animated light beams endlessly create mandalas in three dimensions. This visually sonic liturgical act is a tension between the form that is expressed and the indistinctness from which it arises. Eight light beams refer at once eight directions, eight sections of the day, 8 houses/planets that surround the suryakund at the JKK.
VISHAL K DAR
Vishal K Dar (b. 1976) is a Gurgaon (India) based artist/architect. Dar uses satire and scale to address deeper personal issues. Dar’s art practice is diverse in terms of medium, where transformations and the nocturne are some of the more visible themes. Through place-making, he instils a sense of dreamlike quality in his works.
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- When is Space? In An Exhibition on Contemporary Architecture Commissioned by Jawahar Kala Kendra, Edited by Rupali Gupte and Prasad Shetty. Jaipur: Jawahar Kala Kendra, 2018.