In a similar vein, one encounters a rather Dali-esque rendition of the modernist spatio-temporal distortion in Ranbir Kaleka’s Quixotic Corridor Version 3 of the Great Topiarist’s Astonishing Dilemma (archival inks and oil). The sheer strangeness and whimsicality, the quasi-magical realist elements along with the explosion of colour and disparate ideas reflecting in the mirror make up a telling narration of a mind that has been burdened with an imaginary overload rather than the proverbial sensory stimuli. Is 2020 the start of a new One Hundred Years of Solitude?
24 September 2020
