Known-Unknown & Unknown-Known
The conscious awareness of the presence and play of the material on created surfaces and yet an ambiguity regarding its identity and its value, is what this show explores. The final attempt of the entire act/practice is even more mysterious: the artist plays with the "Known" but the "Unknown" plays with the artist. The result is a process of visual language with added layers of depth, always moving towards a greater completion, and yet, still revelling in the unresolved
From the beginnings of human history, the group, or the collective, has been the basic unit of much creativity. As opposed to the individual artist working out his/her own aesthetics, the coming together of a group with its shared commonality and pooling of minds, creates differently. This has led this group to slowly drop all individual forms and converge their practice within the pure world of the "Abstract". The formlessness, the meditative and the eternal aspect of abstraction, led to the name of the group – "TURYA".
The final attempt of the group, keeping true to its essence of inclusion and coming together, is to try and involve the viewer within the aesthetic vision of its art. Thus, the artists collectively explore the essence of an aesthetic with viewers in mind - in some sense trying to articulate a shared sensibility. This in itself is the 'Turya' process of creation.
The space of the canvas is slowly covered with lines, forms, and colours, individually by each artist, but drawing from, and adding to the collective energy while working in the same studio spaces, as well as in their own individual spaces too. What thus lies hovering in the abstract, becomes Absolute, and that in turn layers the artists' "exploration into unknown territory" can best be transcribed as the "Known-Unknown & Unknown-Known".