Spectrum of identity - myth, mystery, & men

Spectrum of Identity

A solo exhibition of artist ARCHAN MUKHERJEE

Date: March 30, 2023
- March 4, 2023

Place: Chhobi-o-Ghor Art Gallery, 16 Lake Temple Road, Kolkata -700029

Concept Note

পুরুষ কি এর পরিচয়? কার জন্য এই পরিচয়? কে বাছে এই পরিচয়, সেই ব্যক্তি মানুষটি, না চারপাশের সমাজ ? কি দেয়া নেয়া এই দুইয়ের মধ্যে? কোথায় প্রেম, কোথায় সংঘাত? কোথায় গ্রহণ কোথায় বর্জন, এই পরিচয়ের? কি হয়, যখন সমাজের ধারণা আর ব্যক্তির পরিচয়ের মধ্যে তফাৎ ঘটে? অর্চন মুখার্জী, তার মূলত fine art nude চিত্রভাষায় পৌরুষের নির্মাণ ও তার বিনির্মাণ খুঁজেছেন। পুরুষ, তার পৌরুষ। পৌরুষের মুখ ও মুখোশ, এদের অভিযোগ ও অভিমান। পৌরুষের দম্ভ ও সেই দম্ভের অসহায়তা! শরীরের কোন অঙ্গ ও তার সাথে কোন সংস্কার পৌরুষকে উজ্জীবিত করে, আবার সেই এক জিনিস কোন পুরুষের লজ্জার কারণ হয়! পুরুষ কেন গর্বের, না-পুরুষ কেন লজ্জার! লজ্জার সাথে পৌরুষের সম্বন্ধ কি? পেশীর সাথে পুরুষের যোগ আর তার লাস্যের মধ্যে বিয়োগ কোথায়, কেন? লাস্যময় পুরুষের সাথে সমাজের সম্বন্ধটা কি! এরকম বহু প্রশ্ন উত্তর, উল্লেখ প্রতিউল্লেখের অভিজ্ঞতাই এই প্রদর্শনী, Spectrum of Identity, myths, mystery and men... Concept Note, Spectrum of Identity, myths, mystery and men... Man What does it mean to be one? What drives human beings towards the identity? Is it a social imposition, or a free choice to call yourself 'a man'? How does the thin line between imposed identity and free choice organise debates between the two? How do they interact? How do they collide? When does one own up to it and when does one let it go? What consequences does the society hold for 'a man' determined to hold on to his own idea of 'manhood'? Archan Mukherjee has been on a mission to determine the interaction between the construction and deconstruction of masculinity. The masculine and his masculinity! The face of a man, and the mask of masculinity placed on it; the conflict between the two! The perverted pride that leads to emphatic pathos. Footnotes from the human anatomy and the notions pinned to it, erupting masculinity for some, and emasculating the rest! The pride of masculinity and the shame of emasculation! The rhetoric between shame and masculinity. A study of the appropriation of masculinity to a strong body and an upfront confrontation of anything that doesn't match up to it. The interaction that a man, acknowledging the coexistence of masculine and feminine energies residing in him, has with the society. The exhibition attempts to answer such questions that words fail to address; to put up a thesis alongside it's anti-thesis, to acknowledge contradictions. Spectrum of Identity, myths, mystery and men..

About the artist ARCHAN MUKHERJEE

ARCHAN MUKHERJEE
Archan Mukherjee
Archan Mukherjee has been on a mission to determine the interaction between the construction and deconstruction of masculinity. The masculine and his masculinity! The face of a man, and the mask of masculinity placed on it; the conflict between the two! The perverted pride that leads to emphatic pathos. Footnotes from the human anatomy and the notions pinned to it, erupting masculinity for some, and emasculating the rest! The pride of masculinity and the shame of emasculation! The rhetoric between shame and masculinity. A study of the appropriation of masculinity to a strong body and an upfront confrontation of anything that doesn't match up to it. The interaction that a man, acknowledging the coexistence of masculine and feminine energies residing in him, has with the society. The exhibition attempts to answer such questions that words fail to address; to put up a thesis alongside it's anti-thesis, to acknowledge contradictions.

Artworks

Archan Mukherjee
Title: The Mother
Archan Mukherjee
Title: The mourning Man
Archan Mukherjee
Title: Arko- seated back torso
Archan Mukherjee
Title: Seated man with a red Veil
Archan Mukherjee
Title: standing man with two Lotus in his hand
Archan Mukherjee
Title: wearing the pink bra (colour)
Archan Mukherjee
Title: sewing the pink bra (colour)
Archan Mukherjee
Title: Sati, lost in melancholy
Archan Mukherjee
Title: Breaking the Glass
Archan Mukherjee
Title: Seated man with papaya

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