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Artists combine From top, Manoj Vyloor, Santhosh Lal Pallath and Sunil A. P. and their works

Here the grey and black of charcoal finds a stronger essence when used with the strength and sheen of acrylic. The artist has used thought evoking concepts that allow us to record as everyday events. Especially those pertaining to the economy: the boom and the globalisation. In ‘Solace: a memo’, Manoj has depicted the figures of a man and a woman in charcoal looking into the horizon.

Then again it could be the depiction of what the future beholds, in colours of beige, yellow and browns: in shapes as squares, a dream or an illusion. A graffiti finds itself upon a wall, a mark of the 21st century and the loneliness that comes from today’s emerging economy. Symbols are a predominant mark in Manoj’s works that take shape as a solitary tree in this case, or even the use of rectangles, squares or cylinders that adopt various meanings and feelings depicted in the background.

There, however, still exists somewhere the presence of a deeper belief: of togetherness or love, as in his ‘sans frontiers: a memo’, the reunion of a soldier with his lover, but then again is it only a memo?

Moving on a similar track, Santhosh Lal Pallath, through his paintings, acrylic on canvas or water colour (with gold leaf on paper) questions the various pains of society.

Those that often remain unsaid, a woman and her life for example. In ‘life of the anonymous’, Santhosh veils the face of a woman: a house wife, maybe a housemaid, with a dress being hung up with a clothes pin. Behind the dress is the mind and heart of an individual left to scrabble within her own emotions and thoughts, a mind unfelt or untouched.

So also in his ‘public stage’, where the thrust of war looms in the background, in the forefront a pained man dressed in modern attire, lost within the squabbles of development, And his ‘favouring the anticipation’, a little girl behind grills charmed by the sight of birds on the other side. A marred image of the truth, of life.

A. P. Sunil’s two works in dry pastel on paper, other sculptures in metal sheet, fibre glass and acrylic, is where he has blended various styles of sculpturing to create a language of his own, like the blend of the mountains into the back of a moving turtle.

The self searching of one’s inner soul is also evident, the turtle, his ‘moving mountains’, carrying a burden or in his ‘sleep of an autocrat’, a bird in slumber, lying on its back on a tree, questioning the imbalances in society.

An emotion unspoken yet made tangible.

The exhibition ends October 31.

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