Ravikumar Kashi Artist, Writer, Educator

Silent Echo

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2016

Silent Echo

At the core of Ravi Kashi’s art work lies his Interest in exploring the mechanics of making meaning.Over the years, he has developed an unconventional artistic vocabulary, supported by a personalized logic, and an aesthetic structure born from a process-based act of combining ideas. He is invested in the conscious and unconscious linking of the visual image with a mental concept, which encourages a viewer to analyse and interpret much beyond the initial retinal response. The works tend to spill their secrets slowly, reliving associations imbued by the artist, and reflecting myriad others arising from individual and collective experience, and triggered memory.

Silent Echo is a compilation revolving around the Object. Five distinct but interrelated pieces of work address the character, historicity, function, and relevance of diverse objects that the artist chooses to build his narratives around. He is as comfortable with the hand crafted object as with the photographed, drawn or readymade one. They each transcend different boundaries in communication and create palpably altered relationships with a viewer. Kashi’s observation of human nature and sociological responses enables him to embed ‘clues’ that act as windows into his world; a world that is silent and eloquent at the same time, and inhabits spaces between physical truth and imagined reality.

Kashi takes on the role of a commentator, evaluating and interpreting histories, myths, memories, people and places, events and situations. The objects and texts are an extension of his thought and artistic process. They are infused with both positive and negative connotations, and involve a viewer in the completion of their transformation from a passive state to something actively communicative. Visual devices of concealment and revelation, linguistic devices of punning, poetics and metaphoric speech, and adroitly introduced references to iconic imagery serve to produce a multi-layered, many-textured topography one is sucked into.

Excerpt from essay Silent Echo, Lina Vincent Sunish