Rahul Pradhan

Most of humanity exists within a conflicted paradigm centered around fear, desire, authority, resistance and seeking. The resultant equilibrium is that of a permanent "distancing", a self-imposed barrier that shields one from potential harm, but also prevents us from fully encountering the entirety of oneself and thus the world. Is it possible for this barrier to dissolve? What is encountered when in this space of vulnerability and openness?

To explore the above, the project then becomes an excavation into the unconscious. In relinquishing control and confronting its inherent movement through embodiment, the discomfort encountered in such a state presents a conflict between creation and curation, perceived chaos and order. The emerging contents take the form of visual and sonic movements of glistening terror and shining hope, each step moving towards an unnameable source, and thus away from the comfort of knowledge. 

Gesture, before language, being the most immediate expression of creative impulse, seemingly unrelated becomings are connected by indescribable threads, hinting at the source from which they emerge. The resulting artifact thus, is a mirror into the abyss of the mind.

The intent then is to meet the unknown in one's lived experience, fully, completely, and thus stepping into it. It is in this space that one unfolds, revealing what we really are.

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