“Intimità Personale” solo show of Narayan Sinha curated by Sumesh Sharma

As an artist holding onto the role of the artist which is not medium based or reflected on a singular form the practice of Narayan Sinha comes from a study and observation of an environment and its immediate visualities. These are objects that for him as an artist hold conscience. He works in a manner that does not alter the found object but rather he displaces its positioning from its immediate surrounding that arrests the perspective in its design. This act of seeking a potential aesthetic – a vision only seen by Narayan is a peculiar narrative that we see in his visual vocabulary.

Narayan’s sculptures aren’t just elements of pure abstraction. He is not seeking a nihilism of ideas or just attempting to occupy space through form. Rather this is a conscious effort to find tangible ends to an image that forms in his mind. He grew up in a Mofussil town that served as a major transportation hub – Nalhati. Sitting on the intersection of a railway junction, the State Highway 7 and National Highway 14 we encounter a city of garages, automotive factories, bus stands and truckers. Here large buses and trucks get repaired. Narayan grew up in an automotive factory – a place his father had founded and ran. As a child he admired his father, a man who towered over him and saw him working on a monumental scale in a factory that produced automotive.

Intimità Personale
Solo show of Narayan Sinha
Curated by Sumesh Sharma
11-14 April, 2025
IFBE, Ballard Estate, Mumbai