You can't see them, You can't feel them I, 2024

In his latest series of watercolours, Vivek VC draws from the reservoir of stories passed down by his grandmother, interweaving them with the visual language of Mughal and Persian miniature painting. Figures and animals lifted from these traditions reappear in his compositions as mutable characters, shifting between roles of memory, emotion, and allegory. Yet these works resist narrative closure: they open instead onto fragmented, ambiguous storylines that hover between recollection and imagination, inviting the viewer to wander without resolution. Vivek’s restrained use of colour is central to this ambiguity. By working with a limited palette, he cultivates a dreamlike space where atmosphere takes precedence over representation. Colour, deployed sparingly, heightens the sense of uncertainty, rendering the works at once luminous and elusive. In these landscapes of memory, time and logic feel suspended—events half-remembered, characters half-recognized, gestures half-complete. This approach continues a thread that runs through Vivek’s practice, which is deeply rooted in his upbringing in Kannur, Kerala, and shaped by local ghost stories, mythology, and the tales of childhood. Across mediums—oil, charcoal, pencil, and watercolour—his work negotiates the porous boundaries between memory, history, and imagination. Photographic references and real objects often ground his compositions, but his deliberate shifts in scale, juxtaposition, and sequencing create a sense of disorientation, mirroring the way lived stories dissolve into fragments over time.

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