Mihir Sud

In the retrieval of ancient, fossil pasts and the abundance of the unknown expanse known as the universe, colour is used to determine time and age. It also produces wonder. Temperatures and climates stimulate colour as we see it in our eyes. The hue of light from stars and galaxies can tell us of their temperatures, distance and speed. It is mineral and an emotion, starlight and imagination. It is cerebral and celestial. Drawing from his experience as an art director working in film and television, and his work as a designer, Sud is interested in divining frameworks for colour that extend into light, temperature and texture. Sud treats colours as fields- static, magnetic, electric- where there is little reverence for order and a deep fascination for chaos and chance. In collapse, he extracts forms- temporary, wet, glitchy and slimy- using paint like it were to always stay wet and malleable. In Mihir Sud’s works colours work as material clues in all these registers and the spectrum of the mind. There is also muscle memory and instinctive urgency in play. Thick coats of paint layer to produce a lattice of distinct tones. It is then stretched and spilled, drawn and contained. They serve as codes, or incantations emerging from emotional states of the heart and mind. They become language and vibrations, the sound of the earth moving. Colour is used to make surreal yet keep tactile- to produce hues of technological, metallic futures and to excavate forms from the ancient, ammonite pasts.

Curatorial Text - Mario D’souza

Detail

Exhibition extended into Studio Citron

Electroson aka Akshay Hegde observing sounds for Mihir Sud’s Exhibition - Colour. Code. Cosmos.