SHEKHAR SHINDE,
Shinde completed his M.F.A (2012-13 Printmaking) from University
of Hyderabad, Telangana and B.F.A (2008-2012 Painting) From Shri
Venkateshwara College of Fine Arts, Osmania University.
Nipped……… As an artist associated with the medical college for
employment reasons for the past, where I prepare models for the embryology
class….I have been in constant contact with the human fetus. The steady and
consistent presence of the aborted fetus, sometimes healthy, sometimes
deformed in eclectic shapes, sizes, textures & colors, to be preserved as
specimen in formalin triggered this series of visualizing life inside the womb,
my own compulsive perceptions of life, death, pain and the irony of a possible
living legend resting as a specimen. I have chosen paper as the medium for its
sensitivity and for being symbolic of fragility as of life. The palette is dull,
muted and not very often with a dash of contrast but latter I’m trying to use
some vivid colours glimpse of urbanization in the work which I feel one reason
of these aborted fetus. Deliberating the material such as crushed rice paper, data
codes, stamps, seals, needles, etc were used. In this particular have tried do a
collage which represents nine months’ time period of fetus in mother womb
which were visualized in the work. Ongoing works of mine were more of
representation towards the visual perception where I have paper pulp in the
shape of a mother’s womb and worked on the ripped thoughts and compulsively
probing into the biological and technical reasons for this untimely negation of
life and the impact of it … psychological, physiological and emotional on the
parent, my series on one hand has emerged in a saturated gamut of cloistered
and subsequently erupting visual shots and on the other hand as a source of
knowledge giving scope for immense introspection and tracing arguments with
regards to life nipped before birth or just death before life.