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e do not want to draw the line. However thin the line might be, we want to erase the line of demarcation totally. If the line is removed everything will emerge to be more beautiful. This precept is applicable everywhere and for each and everything. So we came, sat together on the same platform to create a symphony of visual, where we have tried to remove the line, to attain that harmonious amalgamation.

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Why indeed do we have to draw a line?

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rt has been in a constant relationship with the evolving ideas and values of art pedagogy in the long civilizational history of its making. Though art has emerged from dissociated periods of histories, distinct and diverse forms of cultures within geographical boundaries that speaks an indigenous tongue; deploys a memory of the past in its execution, or demonstrates the zeitgeist of the age, certain values embraced by art-making have remained to continuously reappear through the times. These values accepted in the conventions and canons of most forms of art today are expressing a universal awareness. In the present context, established values seem to have undergone revision allowing experimental modes of implementation in various mediums, making room for advancing concerns about global values.

The beginning of modern art and exhibition spaces is a recent phenomenon that could have only been possible with a collective

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initiative of like-minded artists and experts coming together to digress from the mainstream. But it was always the collective art movements through manifestos and group exhibitions that brought in objectionable changes and solo eccentric interventions disapproving the previously established concerns. Art-making has become an autonomous gesture with the authority shifting into the hands of artists and art-experts alike. Progressive modern exhibition spaces differentiate itself from the rest, in the process also devising its own school of thought. Group exhibitions in this sense, are more impactful and effective in proffering a message than an individual artist can do.

The assemblage of a heterogeneous to create a whole new entity makes all the difference.

With this exhibition the artists aim to do just that, to erase the line and merge the existing occurrences through the diverse expressions of these fifteen artists.

De-lineating once more Soumik Nandy Majumdar

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iewers’ perspectives on art visà-vis artworks have always been a fascinating phenomenon to watch and study. More often than not, viewers’ perspective on art is integral to what is expected from art they go to see.

The perspective is influenced by the set of expectations and the expectation is often colored by pre-conceived notions. Both being subject to change – gradual or rapid – the demarcating lines keep changing and tend to disappear at times. It is at this moment that the artists – the most active and creative participants in the whole circuit – are seen to be taking thoughtful initiatives to create expansive spaces or platforms on which viewers can re-think and alter their perceptions.

To dismantle the pre-conceived expectations from art is not an easy idea. To re-draw the contours, to lay out a movement or share the anxieties would be a more effective way to deal with the expectations. Artists are often found doing it successfully when, and only when, they themselves press the ‘refresh’ button, come out from their thought-closets, create new challenges and keep the entire trajectory open to the viewing public. The ‘entire trajectory’ in this particular context implies individual creative paths as well as the contextual journey that includes global exposure, interdisciplinary approach, and even the longing to suffer from the essential and proverbial angst. This is not to romanticise one’s artistic engagement but rather to save it from getting de-politicised in the larger sense of the term.

Cross-cultural artistic practice has gained a certain momentum when global exposure came handy due to massive technological escalation and phenomenal access to web communication. It informed contemporary art practice in a remarkable way but it also put us in a crisis – the anxiety of losing the ground reality as opposed to the virtual reality. A critical look at the global art reveals this apprehension at every possible juncture. However, ripping apart of medium-based categories of art and reinvesting art with the ideas of issues, concerns and social engagements have enabled contemporary art to face the situation head-on. It is this kind of encounter that has changed the art space, the definition of art practice and viewers’ perception to a great deal.

A major point of debate that somewhat confused the art of the

90s for sometime was a futile exercise to posit representation and conceptual as two fundamentally clashing ideas. It got further equated with the misunderstood and misplaced antagonism between modern and postmodern. But certain developments in contemporary art, more specifically in the realm of Conceptual Art, have contributed hugely to a comprehensive renewal of our understanding of art in last three decades. For example, to separate the conception and material realization of a work of art, and to equate the one with the other, led to a fundamental neglect of the artist’s craft and to the idea of the work of art as a holistic aesthetic formation. Secondly, analytical strategies came up against the modernist dogma of the essentially visual nature of art, a dogma which soon lost its claim to universal validity in the face of artistic practices that radically questioned the aesthetic content of art. Further, in many such ways, the crucial opening up of the definition of art actually led to a pluralistic differentiation of art which understandably generated controversies and polarities but at the same time armed the artists with a large range of conceptual tools to reclaim a critical space.

The geographical and therefore cultural outlook of the contemporary art world has never been so diverse. Art has certainly become more colourful, more varied and more complex.

The new millennium truly opened up a Pandora’s Box from which all sorts of styles and concepts seemed to have come out.

Imaging ideas, exploring material and researching on concepts invariably engaged the artists closely with the social reality that prompted them to defy categorizations and strengthen the heterogeneity despite the risks of self-indulgence and disconnect.

The acceptance of the postulate that art is more than a carrier of ‘meaning’ has expanded the practice itself to newer horizons across the mind-globe.

Bracha Lichtenberg Ettinger – an Israeli-born painter – writes, ‘Artists continually introduce into culture all kinds of Trojan horses from the margins of their consciousness; in that way the limits of the Symbolic are transgressed all the time by art. It is quite possible that many work-products carry subjective traces of their creators, but the specificity of works of art is that their materiality cannot be detached from ideas, perceptions, emotions, consciousness, cultural meaning and that being interpreted and reinterpreted is their cultural destiny.’ Viewers’ perception too, following this understanding, tends to be less about expectation and more about engagement.

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Dust and life 2017

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t is fun clicking someone you do not know. So what if you know them? You might be interested in the subjunctive, but, you need an instantaneous insight to create a circumstance so that you juxtapose your subject against that faded backdrop. It’s not a memory. It is encountering the awkwardness of life surrounded by insipid, pointless and miserable. Does it serve the purpose?

No, no idea. But it is not always awkwardness, it is love; love which has never been tested. What do we know about love? What do we know about life? Never mind, life exists and love exists too. Strange, but as time passes love is used as an investigative tool to discover life.

Born 16th January 1971 Education 1994-99: Diploma in Painting & Commercial Arts from the Birla Academy of Fine Arts Awards 2013 Certificate of Merit by IndianInstitute of Photography KaleidoscopeIndia Group Show • 2015S Pirit of Art, exhibition organized by Spirit of Art, Spain • 2014 China HumanityPhotography Association, China • 2012 a Kolkata Photography Group, Kolkata • Participation 2016 FACES OF THE WORLD OF WORLDOF FACES Embassy of Hungary (New Delhi)

Anjan Ghosh Photographer 87/17B, Bosepukur Road, 3rd Floor, Kolkata 700 042, West Bengal, India T: 033 25687798 | M: 09830251737 E: anjan1975@gmail.com

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Untold Story 2016

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Hands on 2016

Hunger is the best sauce

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Born 15 February 1944 Salvador Bahia Brazil Education Business School of F.G.V Sao Paulo, Brazil Awards 2015 Terrra Brasil- Silver Medal • Vila Nova De Gaia, Portugal • Artists Across Continents - Silver Medal • II Cultural Week Brazil - Norway • Braziliam Embassy • Oslo, Norway • Artcom International Expo - Gold medal • Carrousel, Du Louvre • Paris, France Participation 1969 2nd BienalDabahila, Salvador, Brazil • 2006 Bahia Brasil Eomundo, Salvador, Brazil • 2011 Caboclos Deitaoarica, Itaparica, Bahia, Brazil • 2014 Caboclos Deitaoarica, Sao Paulo, Brazil

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ife is demanding, but the world is as fragile as the brain cells are.

He is a born optimist, born into the silence. One can sense the good intent he shares with the subjects he chooses. It is perhaps the happiness which is written and unwritten and the magic moments of life precisely formed in the possible destination that attracts his lens.

Armando Correa Ribeiro Photographer AV Lafaiete Coutinho 426, Salvador Bahia Brasil 40015-160 P: +55 71 99971 6999 (Brazil) +351 911859402 (Portugal) E: armandocr@me.com W: www.armandocr.com.br

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Untitled 2014

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Untitled 2010

Untitled 2012

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Born 14th December 1977, Serampur, West Bengal, India Education 2005 M.F.A Kala Bhavan, Santiniketan, Visvabharati University, W.B. 2003 BVA from RBU, Kolkata

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omen the living and men the insipid – the more you think of these the hungrier you grow. Men, women, curtain and a story behind the curtain- that is what life is like; and relationships: sometimes terrible, otherwise ‘well anyway, let’s go’. A little drunk?

Perversion? No, I have absolutely no idea what you could be thinking.

All you need is a little intuition, imagination and the knowledge of how things work. What if you don’t understand? What if you peep into others’ bedrooms? It is too cold an attitude, nonsense!

Awards 2006 Received Junior Fellowship of Govt of India, Ministry of Tourism and Culture.

2004 Merit Scholarship of Kalabhavan, Santinikatan (Painting) Group Show 2003 Two men Show, Academy of Fine Arts, Kolkata • 2002 Trio Show, Rabindrabhavan, Lalit Kala Akademi, New Delhi • 2001 Group Show, Academy of Fine Arts, Kolkata One Man Show 2013 ‘Insight out...’ Gallerie Crscent, Bengaluru. • 2009 On the way...’ Mistiq Art Gallery, New Delhi • 2004 2nd Solo Show, Academy of Fine Arts, Kolkata • 2001 Solo Show, Academy of Fine Arts, Kolkata Participation 46th National Exhibition, Lalit Kala Akademi, New Delhi & many shows all over India

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Painter Stayam Apartment, 2nd Floor, Nishikanan, Teghoria, Kolkata 700 153, West Bengal, India P: +91 9830034388 | E: reedeeta.pal@gmail.com

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Composition Mixed media on paper 2017

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Composition Mixed media on paper 2017

Composition Mixed media on paper 2017

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Born 6th September, 1989, Howrah, West Bengal, India Education 2012 International PG Diploma Animation Film Design, National Institute of Creative Communication, Bangalore • 2010 B Sc in Animation Film Making, St Xavier’s College, Kolkata Award Short Film Festival, BGHSAA, Kolkata Participation India Digital Heritage Project, Digital Hampi, National Institute of Design as Research Associate

Deepanjan Sarkar Digital Painter, Animator 59, Joy Narayan Santra Lane, Howrah 711101, West Bengal, India P: +91 9830278777 E: deepan6989@gmail.com

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ike I said, he demonstrates an obsession with the real verses the surreal and landscapes of the other world that only dreams can digest. Back and forth, the prefabricated digital imageries have essentially been power-stemmed with symbols what is, integral or imagined, layered with identical shapes and un-identical ones. It’s true that they are fantastic thoughts one would probably never have apprehended. Plus, it’s an experience of surprise and an effort to interpret the possibilities of the immeasurable.

And beyond Digital 2014

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And beyond digital 2016

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And beyond digital 2016

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Children, eyes that speak 2013

Born 22nd March, Salvador, Bahia, Brazil Education Federal University of Bahia, Human Sciences (History) Panamerican School of Arts (Interior Design)

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he sees the unusual in the usual: anything you want, as long as you like.

Unbelievable! It’s a question of how to take a picture of someone you’ve never even met. It’s peculiar but yes, there is nothing you could do about those ‘decisive moments’. People are strange but what do you think they are doing at that moment, in this place? Still, you will give a try knowingly or unknowingly to catch that naked moment of life divorced from the selfish demands of the urban set up.

Awards Brazilian Embassy Oslo, Norway, 2015 • Carrousel du Louvre, Paris, 2015 Group Show 2015 Brazil Land - Vila Nova de Gaia. Portugal • 2015 Brazil Land - Brazilian Embassy, oslo, Norway • 2015, Brazil Land, Carrousel du Louvre, Paris, france One Woman Show 2014 The holy Warrior Exhibition in salvador, BAhia, Brazil • 2014 Festival and Colors City of Itabuna South of Bahia in House and Color event • 2012 daily Life of City of Salvador in annual Exhibition House and Color event

Sinisia Coni CR Photographer AV Lafaiete Coutinho, 426/301 Comércio 40015-160, Salvador, Bahia - Brazil P: +55 71 99161 7100 (Brazil) +351 911 859 372 (Portugal) E: contato@sinisiaconi.com W: www.sinisiaconi.com

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Children, eyes that speak 2014

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Children, eyes that speak 2015

Children, eyes that speak 2014

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Born 31st October 1976 Kolkata, West Bengal, India Education 2004 Master in fine arts 2004 Painting Banaras Hindu University • 2002 Bachelor fine arts 2002 Painting Banaras Hindu University Awards 2002 Award of Jain Vidyapith Varanasi • 2003 Award of Avantika • 2004 Award of State Exhibition Lucknow • 2005 Award of Nirman Kolkata Group Show Group Show at abc Art Gallery 2002 • Group show in Shopping Complex - Kolkata 2005 Participation Avantika - All indiaExibition 2001 • 23rd State Lalit Kala Academy Lucknow, 20012002 • State Art Exhibition (Lucknow) 2004 • Academy of Fine Art, Annual Exhibition • Annual Exhibition of Birla Academy of Art & Culture Kolkata- 2004

Rima Paul Painter Stayam Apartment, 2nd Floor Nishikanan, Teghoria, Kolkata 700 153 West Bengal, India P: +91 9830505332, 90385536407 E: rima7619.paul@gmail.com

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mong the many things, a city is vibrant and equally abstract. It is unimaginable to know and understand the meaning of a city in its entirety.

A physical city, a psychological city, hysterical city: where you expect the unexpected. A city is the tangle of streets with unique structures, people with peculiar characteristics. You love your city because you are an element in the complex network of the blood veins of the city. Then, the holy city is a city symbolises the unexplainable spiritual conscience of humanity at large.

Untitled Acrylic on board 2017

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Gaze 2016

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ou never know what will happen in the very next moment.

Anything can happen. We call it fate, karma and surrender to nature.

Then the question: why me? But is there an answer to these impertinent questions? You begin again, like a child who tries to walk and realise that there is a long way to go – you forget the past and step into the future.

Someone is watching. You realise that you are not alone. You start adoring the human body. You engage yourself exploring the naked figure and the nudity in light, in shadows, under the roof and in the open ground.

On considering it sacred you experience a great sense of freedom.

Born 14.04.1981, Druzhkovka, Donetsk region, Ukraine Education Donetsk State Institute of Artifical Intelligence, Economic Cybernetics, Statistics and Computer Science department

Alina Ushcheka (Gloria Mundi) Photographer Eliasova 324/14, Prague, Czech Republic, 16000 P: +42 077 324 7330 E: ok.ushcheka@gmail.com W: www.ushcheka.com

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Sakura on the Stairs 2016

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Spirit 2016

Light Game 2016

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Born 18th June 1973, Uttar Pradesh, India Education Diploma in Fine Arts, A.F.A (Visual Art), Kolkata Awards Certificate of Merit (Academy of Fine Arts) Award of Chitrak Group Shows 2011 Group Exhibition, Chemold Art Gallery, Kolkata • 2008 Group Exhibition, Birla Academy of Art& Culture, Kolkata • 2007 Group Show, Metropolitan Art Salon, Kolkata Participation 2000 Annual Exhibition of Visual Arts Department, Academy of Fine Arts, Kolkata • 2000 Annual Exhibition of Indian Society of Oriental Art, Kolkata • 1999 Annual Exhibition of Visual Arts Department (Academy of Fine Arts), Kolkata • 1998 Annual Exhibition of Visual Arts Department (Academy of Fine Arts), Kolkata

Babir Das Painter Laskarpur, Lake Gardens Kolkata 700 153, West Bengal, India P: +91 9831608514 E: das.babir1973@gmail.com

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here is a long silence between colors, between forms and spaces.

Thinking the separate thoughts, no one has seen how things are going to work at the other end. They look exactly like the kaleidoscopic pieces of colored glass shattered around, but that’s not all. The question: what is the official story? Nobody has an idea. But the artist knew the truth, the rhythm and the poetry - a truth that can never be explained verbally.

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Untitled Acrylic on canvas 2017

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he is a story teller who constructs her characters focusing on relevant human expressions and tallying it with impertinent contexts. After all it is the picture that matters, the photographer who matters and the method or technique in which the story is told that matters. Wait a minute; don’t you see that you are already there? What a coincidence!

No, not really. To exaggerate a little more, they are the normal and paranormal powers and transmigrations of their psyches and their bodies. Thrilling!

Group Show 2013-Integra the group of documentary photography “Behind the Look” belonging to the workshop of documentary photography of FotoClub Buenos Aires.

2014-Exhibits in collective shows at the Zárate Cooperative Warehouse and at the Foto Club Buenos Aires Participation 2016-Exhibits in individual sample in the Educational Research Center of Vicente López.

2017-Exhibits in individual exhibition in the Art Space “Borges 1975”

Mia Ferrara Basel Photographer Cabello 3351/5 Piso 2 Dpto 8.

Palermo (1425).

Ciudad Autonoma de Buenos Aires.

Argentina.

P: +54 011 1530084723 E: ferrara.basel@gmail.com

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Born 28th December, 1977 Education 1999-2001 M.Scin Economics, NGO Management, Social Auditor. No formal Education in Photography but a photo enthusiast who finds beauty in simplicity.

Awards 2017 Certificate of Merit AFPC India Group Show 2016 Photo Addicts – PLAAPA, India 2017 Easel – Lens and Pixel, India 2015 Magic Communication – KNCK, India

Piya Dutta Nandi Photographer 36 B B Bandopadhyay Sarani, Flat 3B, Kolkata 700 019, West Bengal, India P: +91 9830063029 | E: piyadn@gmail. com | www.facebook.com/piya.senorita

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ne must reveal the latent thoughts and manifest.

The logic is simple – the idea of being and non-being.

It is an internal process where it is worth pointing out that we are enabled by alternative ideas. It’s just a matter of time.

Out in the open no one knows what she wants to disclose. But, the truth of life in its reality, for a passionate photographer is significant. One cannot deceive the self between the observer and the observed.

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Boy and Girlhood 2016

Boy and Girlhood 2016

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Boy and Girlhood 2016

Boy and Girlhood 2016

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I wish you could see me Acrylic on canvas 2016

Born 21th January 1967, Tehran, Iran Education Associates degree in Architecture, 1986

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s a painter and calligrapher, she paints portraits of men and women and in the process dives deep into their personality traits, narrow curves and tiny voices of their psychological intent. Her compositions seem as if the world has been buried under the blind patches and bold strokes of warm colors reminiscent of the works of those German Expressionists.

Out in the darkness, she found herself entering that curious little world - the cedar forests shrieking in delight.

University of Iran University of Science and Technology Bachelor of psychology, 2007 University of Payam Awards Fajr Visual Art Festival award, Iran, 2011 Group Show Group women’s exhibition, Arasbaran Gallery, Tehran, Iran, 2016 Group women’s exhibition, contemporary museum of Palestine, Tehran, Iran, 2014 Group exhibition, Arte Gallery, Tehran, Iran, 2010

Ziba Vishteh Painter No 12, Dastgerdi St, Shariaty ST, Tehran, Iran, Postal code : 1913673613 P: 00989197067689 https://www.instagram.com/zibavishteh/

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And the sky has forsaken me Acrylic on canvas 2016

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My pain Acrylic on canvas 2016

Rising of the moon Acrylic on canvas 2016

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Born 11th March, 1977, Kolkata, India Education B.V.A. (Sculpture) from Indian College of Arts & Draftsmanship, R.B.U in 2003 • M.F.A (Sculpture) from Kala Bhavana Santiniketan, V.B.U Awards Sunil Pal award from ICAD in 2002 • Honorable Mention cert from Avantika Regional art exhibition, kolkata in 2002 • Best award ICAD in 2003 Group Show Group show Academy of fine arts in 2007, 2008, 2012 • Reality at Karnataka ChitrakalaParishathin Bangalore 2009, 2010 • Group show in Birla Academy of Art & Culture 2015 Participation Annual Exhibition in Indian College of Arts & Draftsmanship in 2002, 2003 • Avantika Regional Art Exhibition 2002 • State Academy Annual Exhibition R.B.U in collaboration with Lalit Kala • Academy, RabindraBhavan, New Delhi in 2003

Avedananda Goswami Sculptor 67/2, S.T. Bati Road, Goswami Para, P.O. & P.S. Khardaha - 700 117, West Bengal, India P: +91 9831910260 E: avedananda.goswami2030@gmail.com

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tereotypical forms of human gestures, actions and emotions of harmless, serene, defenceless little men; silent beings: mythical and mystical. It is to prove nothing, but the impact is dramatic. In accordance with basic rules and evidences, one can’t promise anything, I’m afraid. The twisted bodies cast in bronze as if destabilizing the environment, exhibit a monumental significance building an unusual relationship with the traditional sculptural language and that of architecture.

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Dual entity Bronze 2016

The traveller Bronze 2016

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The chief Bronze 2016

Tree with monkey (II) Bronze 2016

Dual Entity Bronze 2016

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Entangled Sun 2015

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ife is not as static as you believe. Explore: it is incredible!

Experience the excitement of outdoor photography, there is life everywhere and beauty in everything that images can retain for nostalgic reviews.

Withdraw to a faraway land; dig into those little secrets of nature; cut across the meadow. Do you like the way I live? Life is beautiful.

Education 1983-Bachelor of Arts, Berhampur University , Odisha.

1985-Master of Arts, Berhampur University Odisha

Shampashree Mund Photographer Flat No. 1201, Tower-O, Amrapalli Zodiac Sector-120, Noida, India P: +91 8587898915, 8851728455 E: shampamund@gmail.com

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Lighted Paths 2015

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Vanity Mills 2015

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ou sing, I dance.

Seemingly you have many reasons to celebrate life: sunny, warm mornings, short little stories and hidden mountains. It’s cool, it’s warm: the breeze of love and affection scatters the clouds hovering above in the deep blue sky. It’s alright that your heart leaps. Then you realize that you’re not alone. And you are not. You are not going to split open your brain for a bigger picture of a life. Love’s everything and everything is love.

Born 18th November 1957, Fukuoka, Japan Education Private Mukogawa Gakuin, Junior High School, High School, Junior College Education Department Group Show 2015 Sympathy Photo Exhibition Fukuoka, Japan

Miharu Watanabe Photographer 1183-9, Higashifutami, Futami-cho, Akashi-shi, Hyougo-ken, Japan T: 09011554205 E: kirakiramiharu1118@gmail,com

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Towards the end 2016

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ou just sit there, I appreciate your patience and I cannot keep you long.” She says to herself while building up an historic backdrop so as to create a dramatic moment for that exciting shoot. She is lost in thought as if buried under Roman ruins. Non-committal, she is as stern as can be. She knows the art of clicking the unique pictures by stretching her hands out towards the darkness to capture those thick dark stories with the faint available light. Then she thought: there is an order in everything, even in an empty room.

Born 09.09.1976,Turkey - Hatay Education Master’s Degree 2000-2002 Çukurova University Adana/Turkey • Agriculture Faculty, Agriculture Engineering University Bachelor’s Degree 09.1995-06.2000 Çukurova University Adana/Turkey • Agriculture Faculty, Agriculture Engineering Participation Photography Workshop Nepal-2015 India-2015 Istanbul-2016

Ebru Horoz Photographer Aşagıokçular Mah. Laskiye Cad. 35. Sok. Onur Apt. K:2 No:9 Defne/Hatay - TURKEY P: +905352013135 E: ebruhoroz@hotmail.com https://500px.com/ebruhoroz http://instagram.com/ebruuhoroz

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Invocation 2016

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Love passage 2016

Hope is our game 2016

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Sharmila Mitra Amita Ghosh Roy Pradip Kumar Sarkar Debiprosad Paul Abhijit Mukherjee Augustine A Gomes Satrajit Roy Amal Seth Dibakar Ghosh Partha Pratim Roy Indranil Gupta Rajesh Dhar Gautam Das David Scott Sukanya Ghosh

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