Art of the Day: Bagging It at Gallery Chemould

If you’re looking at this work and thinking “I could have done that”, you’re probably right. Bhuvanesh Gowda’s bag of bags lends credo to Joseph Beuys’s famous proclamation that “everyone is an artist”. It is after all, a cloth bag stuffed to the brim with more cloth bags and then hung, from a metal hook, on a wall. Ta dah, art! But the title of Gowda’s body of work in this two-artist show (the other artist is Ritesh Meshram) at Chemould Prescott Road gallery is fittingly the “Pursuit of the Ridiculous”. Is it ridiculous to hang a bag from a hook and proclaim it art? Does it take just a nifty relocation of context—from home to gallery—to shift our perception? Or is Gowda simply suggesting, as he points out in his wall text, that making something “meaningful is also meaningless”? Cynics may shudder at the meta-ness of it all, but take it for what it perhaps aspires to be—a repository of ridicule, of our need to glean deeper meaning when there is possibly none.

Chemould Prescott Road Gallery

LocationQueens Mansion
Third Floor
G. T. Marg
Next to Cathedral School
Fort

Phone2200 0211

Relevant DatesUntil Friday, August 3

HoursMonday to Saturday, 11am to 7pm; Sunday closed

Ticketing & Price InfoFree

Websitewww.gallerychemould.com