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Exploring complexities of the mind

Staff Reporter

‘Memory Traps': One of the paintings by K. Jayakumar.

NEW DELHI: Kerala-based civil servant K. Jayakumar has explored the complexities of the mind, memory, silences and dreams at his ongoing exhibition of paintings at Lalit Kala Akademi here.

Titled “Memory Traps”, the exhibition featuring 33 works in oil and acrylic reflects the disturbed ambience of the cities we live in.

This is the fifth solo show by Jayakumar, who is serving as Additional Chief Secretary to the Kerala Government. Belonging to the 1978 batch of IAS, he has been exhibiting his artistic skills over the past one decade.

According to the artist, the works on view at the ongoing show highlight his obsessions and observations, discomforts and disconnects, memories and madness. Describing himself as a poet-cum-painter, he says painting and poetry complement each other though they do not interpret mutually: “The philosophical tenor of the paintings is unmistakable.”

The artist, who has been writing in Malayalam and occasionally in English, says the more he writes the more he discovers hidden landscapes where poetry does not reach. “It is these invisible landscapes that I try to explore in my paintings. I enjoy that painful delight of discovering life trapped among the debris,” adds the artist.

The exhibition, inaugurated on November 4, is on at Lalit Kala Akademi till this Wednesday. It will now travel to Kolkata where it will be mounted at Park Street from November 22 to 26. It will also be taken to Mumbai where it will be mounted at Rabindra Natya Mandir Gallery from December 3 to 12.

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