Red Moon Songs brings 30 artists under one umbrella

NEW DELHI: On a sultry August evening, among wine and cheese, the art fraternity came together to celebrate feminism. Thirty artists, from India and abroad, put their best work forward at the Red Moon Songs at the Apeejay Arts gallery on the outskirts of Delhi. And the result was high-quality experimental work in new media and emerging technologies featuring over 45 art pieces.

Partly esoteric and partly eclectic, the exhibition combination comprising paintings, video works, installation and sculpture that is aimed at drawing out gender stereotypes and questioning practiced norms of behaviour.

"The art pieces featured in Red Moon Songs question political correctness and outdated social ideologies that oppress half of the world's population and push the limits of feminism," Priti Paul, Director, Apeejay Surrendra Group, said.

The show, curated by art commentator Georgina Maddox, captures the anguish, agony and anger of the female form in modern society. By charting a visual schema that looks at life, form and creation, it also questions the oft-associated themes of patriarchy and aggression in the male.


A work by Anna Kosarewska, a polish artist. (Image: Agencies)

Veteran artist Gogi Saroj Pal pays tribute to Nirbhaya through her eponymous acrylic on canvas. First conceived during the horrific Nirbhaya rape incident in 2013, she places strong genderless imagery against the female form through the 12 individual canvases.

Jehangir Jani, through his video work, 'Conundrum 74 A', gets into the mind of the male 'geisha' and the vulnerability and sensuality that stretches beyond the typical physical forms.


Kanchan Chander's mixed media installation, 'Passion Possession', looks at the narrative of life through discarded ticket stubs, beads, hairpins and various other objects piecing them together to construct a broken self-hood.


Kanchan Chander's mixed media installation. (Image: Agencies)

Kishore Chakraborty pays tribute to the female form in his hay straw and automotive paint work titled 'Shakti', where the fearful and the ferocious find form in his larger-than-life sculpture.

Red Moon Songs is an honest attempt to help make feminine energies reclaim kindred spirits through the visual medium. Through various forms of expression - paint, mixed media and video - the female form is feted and celebrated.

The exhibition is on display at the Apeejay Arts (near Faridabad-Badarpur border) till October 7th 2016