Cyanotype on Glass

Proposed installation film for 'BIAL's ART PROGRAMME', Bangalore International Airport Limited.

The Art Programme in the new Terminal is primarily inspired by two features; the arts and cultural heritage of Karnataka and the thematic of 'Naurasa' or the nine emotions, as put forward in Bharata's Natyashashtra. Taking this as a brief, ‘Naurasa’ being the muse, I had proposed a series of photographs depicting the emotions of different people. Each face - a story. These people will be from Bangalore, from different walks of life, different age groups, faiths and professions. This set of eight photographs can be looked at individually as well as collectively as one. There will be eight sets of transparent layers printed manually using a historical printing process - ‘cyanotype’. The process is quite complex on a larger size of glass, I almost printed all the glasses three times to get the result that you see in the last shoot.

Each photograph will showcase one rasa i.e. sringara, hasya, karuna, raudra, vira, bhayanaka, bibhatsa and adbhuta.

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Installation by Siddharth Kaneria Shot and Edited by Bhavik Kadecha