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Featured Artist - Alwar Bala Subramanian

Alwar Balasubramaniam (Bala) is an intuitive artist, despite his training and disciplined approach. Bala raises the rhetorical distinction between the realms of the abstract and the real while paying homage to the place in Tamil Nadu where he has made his home and studio. Drawing on the area’s scenic beauty, Bala has worked with nature, capturing it through different materials and mediums—sculpture, installation, and painting. Each work is unique, yet they all come together in cohesive dialogue.

Bala does not try to control his materials or coerce them into rigid shapes; instead, he gently coaxes them into form. He focuses on what needs to be expressed and the materials best suited to do so, rather than defining himself by a material and creating work accordingly. In a rare camaraderie, he lets the materials find their own way—within his parameters. In the process, he tries to re-create or unravel through imagination what is not seen. Playing with oppositions—two sides of the same coin, really—he allows viewers to make their own distinctions or connections between the intentional/unintentional, the tangible/intangible, and the defined/undefined.