Masquerade- an endless drama
"We live in an age where original thoughts, the soft petals of dreams are consigned to flames in this daily consuming furnace of societal demands ''- Avijit Dutta
Amidst the multitude of faces and situations revolving around us, the world stands like a massive theatrical stage with different scripts and cast of characters in conversation with one another-all plunged into this heady action for raison d’être of lust, love, greed, power, popularity, prestige, status, anger and professional growth.
An unseen tug of war thrives- between creative liberty and concept notes, fact and fiction, love and false affection, class, and mass. Truth is lost in this whirlwind melee of pretense and projected reality. Art, once a vehicle of self-expression stands at a confluence with its health and survival defined by how one can stretch oneself to fit in and participate in the masquerade of this endless quotidian drama of societal gaze and acceptance.
And the artist has become a character in the play he is now projecting as you watch the scenes unfold across the stage of his canvas…