Artist Priyanka Sinha feels playing with colours sometimes turns out to be more conceptual

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To make art lovers step out of their homes, Chandigarh Lalit Kala Akademi (CLKA) has come up with a solo art exhibition, Invisible In The Visible, by Delhi-based contemporary artist Priyanka Sinha. Inaugurated in the CLKA Gallery on November 27, the exhibition will be on display till October 31.

From the visual treat of colours to the ambience of newly constructed gallery which is a part of an underpass connecting Sector 17 to Rose Garden, it makes for a perfect weekend outing.

Ask her what was the colour of pandemic for her, and she says it was mainly Prussian blue with a tinge of black and red which are considered the colour of fear and danger, respectively.

The theme, Invisible in the Visible, gels well with the exquisite display of her paintings. While it has her recent works, it also has a few paintings from her previous exhibition Unframed, which she says, “were the creative calling that refused to stay within the prescribed boundaries of a frame.”

The reason which determined the theme for Priyanka’s show is an interesting one. She says, “Everybody was doing a lot of work during the pandemic and here I was, thinking what was wrong with me. One fine day, I picked a cloth and started erasing parts of a painting which was not completed. Once it was done, it reflected how we had a foggy vision when the pandemic hit us.”

About her working style, she says, “I work with constructive balance, aesthetical and emotional ups and downs. All of it is my interpretation which relates to my everyday life. I also paint landscapes which are abstract in style. I don’t work with preconceived themes or ideas because sometimes playing with colours turns out to be more appealing and more conceptual.” And she has a reason for her preference for abstract art. Priyanka says, “Painting abstract is like allowing your creativity to be free. Look at nature, every creation of God is so abstract…. There is no pattern, no symmetry, everything looks so haphazard.” On till November 31