A live demonstration by a bunch of theatre actors showcasing the blatant human emotions of fear, anxiety, sorrow and excitement, coupled with an art installation made of wet clay is quite a spectacle to watch at the India Art Fair 2014 here.
The sculpture-based performance titled 'Everything ends and Everything matters' by the US-based artist Anindita Dutta brought to fore the intriguing mix of art and performance.
The artist says the work is inspired by the impermanence of life and the cycle of life and death.
"My work is a take on life's impermanence. I have used terracotta clay. I get this clay when I travel to different places. For me the clay symbolises the various skin types. It works as a metaphor for life and death," Anindita told PTI.
She added that the idea of roping in professional artists to showcase a live performance was a way to exhibit the human emotion curve.
"I have worked with non-theatre actors before but for this sculpture, I wanted performers who could bring out the emotions that all of us go through during the course of our lives. They had to emote through their body language rather than the facial expressions," she said.
The artist went in search of her performers at the 'Bharat Rang Mahotsav', the annual international theatre festival of the National School of Drama
Anindita says she believes that the student actors Charu, Sundar, Shyam, Gurinder and Ranjit did justice to her installation with their brave performance.
