“Humne saari hadein paar kardi hain: we have crossed all limits,” notes artist Santanu Dey about his ongoing solo exhibition Silent Spring, currently on view at Shridharani Gallery in Delhi\u2019s Triveni Kala Sangam.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n
At its core, Dey\u2019s work confronts pressing environmental issues and seeks to raise awareness through artistic expression.\u00a0 He works with a host of materials like paper, e-waste like screws and bolts, wood, aluminium litho-plates, graphite amongst others. His practice interrogates themes such as the unregulated exploitation of natural resources, and the consequences of unchecked consumerism. \u201cI work with ecology, environment, and what is happening in our surroundings. Every day we are doing so many meaningless, unnecessary things in the name of living,\u201d Dey states.<\/p>\n
The title of the show draws inspiration from marine biologist Rachel Carson\u2019s seminal book Silent Spring. \u201cFor the past few years, I\u2019ve been working with the idea of spring \u2014 typically associated with colour, vibrancy, and renewal. But in my work, I don\u2019t depict these things. I focus on how human activity is destroying our environment. Through my art, I want to show what we are doing to our surroundings, what kind of footprints we are leaving behind for future generations. That\u2019s why my spring is silent,\u201d he adds.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"“Humne saari hadein paar kardi hain: we have crossed all limits,” notes artist Santanu Dey about his ongoing…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":33895,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[31],"tags":[442,498,499,500,501,156,111,139,69],"class_list":["post-33894","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-arts-and-design","tag-arts","tag-arts-and-design","tag-artsanddesign","tag-artsdesign","tag-design","tag-entertainment","tag-new-zealand","tag-newzealand","tag-nz"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33894","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=33894"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33894\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/33895"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=33894"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=33894"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=33894"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}