In this highly accelerated world, it is important to take pauses as they often give us clarity, believes Vernika Singh, a renowned sculptor whose exhibition \u2018In Motion and Stillness\u2019 is ongoing at Max Square, Noida.<\/p>\n
In her exhibition, the artist has tried to highlight a balance between hyperactivity and self-reflection. In conversation with The Morning Standard (TMS), the artist says, \u2018In Motion and Stillness\u2019 reflects the way I see life \u2014 we are constantly moving, yet there are moments of pause that give us clarity. The exhibition is about finding a balance between activity and reflection. I\u2019ve worked around the idea of \u2018dynamism in movement\u2019, which I have tried to capture through human forms.\u201d <\/p>\n
Life in art<\/strong> <\/p>\n Although she is a known sculptor now, sculpting came into Singh\u2019s life by accident. It was during her engineering days that she tried her hand at sculpting, and since then, it has been ongoing.<\/p>\n \u201cI had a foundry class where I worked with metal, learning casting, welding, and shaping. That exposure sparked a strong desire to experiment with materials beyond painting, which I had been doing since childhood. College became the turning point, where I moved from two-dimensional expression to sculpting in three dimensions. Over time, I realised that sculpture gave me a way to translate emotions, movements, and stories into form. In many ways, it felt less like I chose sculpture and more like sculpture chose me.\u201d<\/p>\n As an artist, she is also inspired by the works of Michelangelo and Bharti Kher. \u201cI love Kher for the way she uses female forms so powerfully, Louise Bourgeois for her balance of emotion and structure, but more than anyone else, my artist friends are my biggest inspiration. The conversations, struggles, and exchanges we share constantly push me to see differently and create more honestly.\u201d<\/p>\n The artworks<\/strong> <\/p>\n As the exhibition focuses on human reflection, each artwork conveys a strong message to the audience. \u201c\u2018Gymnasts\u2019 is one such work which talks about strength, balance and courage. It\u2019s one human figure holding the other mid air, talks so much about relationships and about life in general. Then there is \u2018I am the universe-II\u2019, this work is a reminder of how we become what we believe we are, it\u2019s a figure seated in a meditative pose with a halo around the head, which I\u2019ve tried doing in a mandala form. The \u2018Inverted Yoga\u2019 series discusses focus. Each work carries a reminder of resilience, harmony and human potential.\u201d <\/p>\n \u2018In Motion and Stillness\u2019 is ongoing at the Max Square in Noida till September 1 from 11 am to 7 pm <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"In this highly accelerated world, it is important to take pauses as they often give us clarity, believes…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":35292,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[267],"tags":[8678,365,362,363,364,366,18,117,19,17],"class_list":{"0":"post-35291","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-arts-and-design","8":"tag-art-exhibition","9":"tag-arts","10":"tag-arts-and-design","11":"tag-artsanddesign","12":"tag-artsdesign","13":"tag-design","14":"tag-eire","15":"tag-entertainment","16":"tag-ie","17":"tag-ireland"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35291","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=35291"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35291\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/35292"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=35291"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=35291"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=35291"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}