For artist Farhat Jamshed, muse came in the form of broken driftwood, which she has cast into installations of train, bird, horse and much more.
This exhibit of installations brought together a selection of Jamshed’s work in abstract wood and metal, in a three-dimensional dialogue with architecture, history, visual design, and nature. She uses wood in its most natural state, often unpolished, uprooted and uncut in conjunction with the neutral colours, debris, and metal to create mixed-medium pieces that invite the spectators to think of the interior space as more than walls. Piyush Goyal, Union Minister of Railways and Coal, graced the inauguration ceremony.
“Painting is documentation whereas installations like buildings are monuments to our ideas, conflicts and achievements as a society. It is not the documentation of history, but history itself,” she said.