Repertoire of 30 artists trace process of creating artworks

Artist Tushar Joag, in his uncanny installation, permutates perspex, plastic, brass, mild steel, wood, electric bulb and wires, to fashion figures representing a "cosmic army" on the hunt for weapons of mass destruction.
Titled "Enlightening army of the Empire," the eight figure artwork is all about "the American invasion of Iraq in the name of deliverance...To bring refinement, illumination to the citizens."
Joag's work finds itself among a repertoire of artworks by 30 artists across generations, finds place in an ongoing art exhibition at the Kiran Nadar Museum of Art here.
Aptly titled 'Constructs/Constructions', the exhibition, according to its curator Roobina Karode, addresses the passage that moves a creative work from the realm of a mental construct into the realm of a constructed image or reality to communicate through its form and content.

"It is focused on the close relationship between the act of making and the manifestation of thought and ideas," says Karode.
For instance, Zarina's paintings, which seem to be nothing more than a collection of geometrical figures drawn on sheets of paper, are in fact deep reflections of her thoughts towards the happenings occurring around her.

Karode says the artist, who kept on changing residences multiple times, was intensely attached to her ancestral home.
So, however beautiful a house she moved in, home to her always remained that particular house, she says.
And, indeed, in one of her series, she has drawn, from her memory, different parts like the courtyard or the roof of her ancestral home, and how the weather was when she was there, and how the moon would look on different nights as she sat by the window.

And it is responses such as these, particularly to the urban or cityscape, that brings the works of such diverse artistes together under one roof.
The exhibition, says Karode, "focuses on a deeper interrogation of the urban condition, of built structures around us and psychological constructs in the everyday life."
In his 'Elevator from the Subcontinent,' artist Gigi Scaria takes a near satirical dig at the metropolitan invention of elevators, which has today essentially become an indispensable part of urban life.