On the field of Truth, on the battlefield of life (II)

06.11.09 – 28.11.09
Opening: Thursday 05.11.09 6-8pm
Artist Talk: Thursday 26.11.09 12.30-1.30pm
Gallery 2 

Query: how to combine belief that the world is to a great extent illusory with belief that it is nonetheless essential to improve the illusion?
Aldous Huxley, Eyeless in Gaza (1936)

On the field of Truth, on the battlefield of life (II) is the second instalment in an ongoing project based upon readings of the Bhagavad Gita. This particular study draws heavily upon Huxley’s Eyeless in Gaza, specifically the central protagonist’s journal entries of 1934, which illustrate one man’s search for meaning in life and the quest for real liberty.  In the interplay of these texts and at the crossroads of the self, Sandrasegar locates echoes of Arjuna’s beseech to Krishna; ‘Ah! Yet again recount…’

Sangeeta Sandrasegar’s work investigates the various ways in which the structures of culture, sexuality and identity have become inextricably linked during the formation of new modes of cognition and how this may be interpreted and represented.