New Life for Art

“New Life for Art” reflects how Dr Gnana’s sculpture titled ‘Listen to Me’ transforms a material often associated with permanence and weight into something that appears to breathe. The title underscores the artist’s gift for infusing stillness with rhythm and spirituality, offering a sculpture that feels alive.

At first impression, the sculpture appears to rest quietly in bronze. And yet, the posture tells us otherwise. Her head tilts gently backwards; her chest stretches open in inhalation. Suspended in the middle of this inhale, awareness concentrated into the moment, the sculpture ceases to be a static body and instead gains rhythm, breathing life into the bronze. 

Repose becomes continuity, a body attuned to the rhythm of breath, carrying within itself a lyrical energy. The sculpture carries an uninterrupted flow of line and form. No harsh lines intrude through. Curves from the torso flow with graceful rhythm into the limbs. This sense of continuity brings to mind rhythms, or rhythm, as conceived in Greek art, whereby the human form was considered a pattern of rhythms in space. 

So here, the sculpture is not just standing for physical stillness but also for the continuity of an emotion, through a suspended moment where body, breath, self, and spirit merge.