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Participating artists: Gayatri Acharjee Halder, Jyothiraj Mayampilly, Meghna Singh Patpatia, Rashmimala, Sajith CN, Sudhayadas S, Veda Thozhur Kolleri

Presented by: Gallery Dotwalk, Delhi NCR

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In the Blink of an Eye

Hosted by the Gallery Dotwalk in Gurgaon, this multi-artist exhibition tendentially gathers ten artists' diverse arrays of work hinting at time as the entanglement of histories, displaced beings, memories of a place, operating through pandemics and shifting urban landscapes.

A brief moment exists between the state of wakefulness and sleep, and also before waking up of untethered, blurred, tumbling thoughts capable to us humans. These states are scientifically defined as hypnagogic - a state immediately before falling asleep, and hypnopompic - a state leading to consciousness or being awake. The two states are different in character; the former slips us through an imaginary, fantasised and unconscious moment before drifting into sleep. It is a non-governed state of an individual shutting the brain, dissolving mental filters and slowly dismantling the concepts of the world. All of our models, norms and ideas of a constrained world pull apart its meaning in the slightest of dizzy recalling. The latter state brings us closer to the reality. It is a state of steadily reaching consciousness when we begin to realise the self, things and people, place and the surroundings.

Comparatively, the state of alertness is subjective to human recollection. How do we make sense of reality, then? Does the past mean anything to us in relation to thinking of the future – while in the present? In the Blink of an Eye considers the states of transcending into sleep and being awake as a metaphor to reflect on time as extended, indefinite and an inconsecutive happening, event, and passage. Each artist featured in this exhibition explores the human state of being in the process of transition between reality and the unfamiliar, through their artistic practice and approaches.

Featured works by:

Bhisaji Gadekar(Goa), Chandan Bez Baruah(Guwahati), Jyothi Basu (Vadodara), Kundan Mondal(Vadodara), Midhun Gopi(Kerala),Prajakta Palav Aher(Mumbai), Rachana Nagarkar(Mumbai), Saju Kunhan(Mumbai), Sneh Mehra(Vadodara), Shruti Mahajan(Hyderabad)