Artwork Description
Midhun’s work is an attempt to conjoin fragmentary visions of his thoughts that is influenced by the surroundings, time, and space. In the absence of human presence, he is trying to create a space that is filled with various forms like landscape-elements, common mundane objects, primary forests and archetypal images. These images invoke feeling of personal or collective memory; feelings such as insecurity, absence, fear/violence, melancholy, love and loneliness. This emotionality and memory are an inseparable part of our worldly existence.
About Artist
Midhun Gopi completed his B.F.A. in Painting from Calicut, Government College of Fine Arts, Thrissur (2010) and his M.F.A in Painting from S.N. School of Art and Communication, Hyderabad (2012). He has participated in group shows at Galerija Ars et Mundus, Kaunas, Lithuania, Europe (2017). He was a part of a site specific poetry performance, curated by Sudheesh Kottembram, with Raqs Media Collective, School of Arts and Aesthetics, J.N.U., New Delhi (2016). He also exhibited in the East West Art Festival, by Alliance Française de Delhi, Japan Foundation, Korean Cultural Centre and NIV Art Centre, New Delhi (2014). In addition to that, he was also a part of the SAFA International Sand Art Festival, Alleppy, Kerala (2015), NIV Art Center, New Delhi (2014), Gallery Veda, Chennai (2013), Galerie Mirchandani + Steinruecke, Mumbai (2012), Kerala Lalit Kala Academy, Thalassery, Kerala (2011), Durbar Hall Art Gallery, Cochin, Kerala (2010 & 2009). He was a part of a Residency at NIV Art Center, New Delhi (2014). He won Kerala Lalit Kala Academy Award for Art Student (2010). He lives and works in New Delhi.