Snapshot 10: Materiality in Motion by Komal Madar

PRESS RELEASE

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Snapshot presents Snapshot 10: Materiality in Motion by Komal Madar.

Madar is a multidisciplinary artist who works across sculpture, painting, and performance. Her need to create starts with looking for discarded materials and objects, which is guided through the philosophy of Kismat – fate and chance encounters. A process that connects her to different places, people and materials. The work consists of discarded fabric, textiles, and found objects. With the knowledge that these textiles would end up in landfill, Madar began collecting from Indian tailors over twenty years ago. To the artist, they hold memories, stories and a sensibility shaped by ancestral Indian cosmologies and the rhythms and rituals of her cultural lived experience.

When making her art, Madar considers the anthropological discourse of how her collected materials embody histories, gendered labour, and ritual significance that resonate with her personally. She also works intuitively to reconstruct the materials through ripping, tearing, layering, and slitting. Through using such a rigorous process, Madar’s hands suffer the labour of the repetition of the pinching, twisting, and pulling of fabric, and this repetition speaks to her endurance and love for her practice.

Studying Fine Art MA at LJMU has had the artist searching for materials throughout the city.

The project on display is a series of work that exhibits textile work from the found materials, found objects from the beach, textile work with mussel shells, and candle holders that create the artwork. This participatory element allows for contemplation and meditation from the viewer, giving them an emotional connection to the showcase.

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