Artist Chintan Upadhyay, who is synonymous with quirky fibreglass 'baby' sculptures, is now fashioning artwork out of second hand knitted garments to create a metaphor for the faceless people of a city.
For his latest solo art show, titled 'Jaane Bhi Do Yaaron-Redux' Upadhyay has converted gallery space into what looks like the market in Sarojini Nagar here.
The artist covers the walls and floor of Gallery Espace, the venue of the show with installations and photographs of faceless forms and figures in stuffed woollen garments.
Ideas of mass production, waste and mechanical artificiality of modern landscapes are what Upadhyay attempts to deal with in the forthcoming show.
"I have been working with site-specific projects for over a decade. In November 2010, I was in El Salvador on a residency where I asked residents to give me their second-hand clothes which I filled with sand and fashioned into artworks. I installed them on the beach and soon the entire area looked like a land inundated with bodies," says the artist.
Upadhyay, says he wanted to recreate the idea of working with second hand clothes for another site-specific story.
The artist has created wall-mounted installations made by stitching dozens of woollen clothes together.
He also takes people's photographs and covers their face and entire bodes with clothes as well as stuffs small boxes with toy-like woollen shapes.
"I wanted to buy second hand garments and not borrow from people I knew so that no connections could be traced back to the person who wore them," says Upadhyay who moved from Mumbai to Delhi three years ago.
