Snapshot 10: Materiality in Motion by Komal Madar
Reception Corridor, John Lennon Art and Design Building, Liverpool School of Art and Design.
Open from 28th April
Monday – Friday, 9:00am – 5:00pm
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Snapshot presents Snapshot 10: Materiality in Motion by Komal Madar.
Madar is a multidisciplinary artist who works across sculpture, painting, and performance. Her need to create starts with looking for discarded materials and objects, which is guided through the philosophy of Kismat – fate and chance encounters. A process that connects her to different places, people and materials. The work consists of discarded fabric, textiles, and found objects. With the knowledge that these textiles would end up in landfill, Madar began collecting from Indian tailors over twenty years ago. To the artist, they hold memories, stories and a sensibility shaped by ancestral Indian cosmologies and the rhythms and rituals of her cultural lived experience.
When making her art, Madar considers the anthropological discourse of how her collected materials embody histories, gendered labour, and ritual significance that resonate with her personally. She also works intuitively to reconstruct the materials through ripping, tearing, layering, and slitting. Through using such a rigorous process, Madar’s hands suffer the labour of the repetition of the pinching, twisting, and pulling of fabric, and this repetition speaks to her endurance and love for her practice.
Studying Fine Art MA at LJMU has had the artist searching for materials throughout the city.
The project on display is a series of work that exhibits textile work from the found materials, found objects from the beach, textile work with mussel shells, and candle holders that create the artwork. This participatory element allows for contemplation and meditation from the viewer, giving them an emotional connection to the showcase.
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Curatorial team for this edition:
Amy D’Cruze
Sophie Donovan
Francesca Fryer
Olivia Neill
Jamie Newall
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Snapshot is a permanent display programme of sequentially changing creative outputs. It provides an impression of each participant’s practice located in a liminal space in the School, where visitors spend only fleeting moments whilst travelling to other spaces or waiting to enter classes.
The project is the result of an ongoing open call to all visiting researchers and practitioners, staff and students of all levels on all programmes at Liverpool School of Art and Design.
It presents incomplete, transitory views of research-and-practice-in-progress; a window into a brief moment in time of a given academic year. The displays are selected based on aesthetic criteria of how to best animate the space they occupy, projecting forwards in time the potential each work holds.
As the year progresses a living archive will develop on the concrete pillar next to each pair of vitrines, providing information about past and current displays.
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Developed by Dr James Schofield, Dr Hana Leaper and Dr Christine Eyene (Exhibition Research Lab), and managed by students from the MA Exhibition Studies programme.
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