Trapped

Trapped... “Locked inside high towers of stacked concrete boxes called home, we look outside at the empty world, hiding from an invisible death.” “Illusory World” is a collection of collages created by SV during the deadly second wave of coronavirus pandemic in India which saw patients dying on the roads while waiting in queues for hospital beds/oxygen and dead bodies floating in rivers as crematoriums were filled to capacity. Each work talks about a “trivial” personal deprivation of the artist as he battles survivor’s guilt in the face of unspeakable human tragedy unfolding around him. The title of this series is a feeble attempt by him to self-soothe through a belief in the illusory nat...View all