The mixed media sculpture, Silence – A Paradox belongs to the Silence Series, a series of artworks in various media created in 2010 and after.
DESCRIPTION
Part of the Silence series, Silence – A Paradox addresses the paradox of prolonged mundane silence — something which constantly exchanges its place with its opposite: a strange heaviness, an unknown sound that, after a while, becomes a sound in itself.
A five-and-a-half kilogram book with a metal cover and empty, lightweight cloth-like paper pages inside. The book presents the paradox between silence and its mundane experience — the strange, unbearable heaviness that silence creates inside oneself, as in the case of a person deaf since birth, who knows only silence imposed by nature and for whom the realisation of sound never happens. The overwhelming silence becomes sound in itself. Silence is there but still not existing — or existing but still not there.
Vandana 