Monotony art

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Bristol, UK-based artist and illustrator Owen Gent creates whimsical yet melancholy works that feature characters navigating a surreal world with a folkloric aesthetic. With water as a recurring motif, the protagonists of his paintings often find solitude in desolate lagoons and pools. Being around water is often therapeutic, and Gent's characters remind us of its calming powers. His protagonists seem to submerge themselves to wash away their sorrows. Gent's work is flat and stylized yet…

About the Work A female figure is depicted in a moment of introspection, resulting in the recognition of boredom. The monotony resulting from constant self-occupation is hinted through the bored and distant gaze, and the visage’s broken reflection in the water. The relationship between the background and the figure is unclear, adding a feeling of oddness to the scene and the radiating skin of the figure seems amiss within the cold tones of the surrounding. Burn’s unique way of painting…

Visualizing the dialogue between spaces and experiences, this body of work is a coming together of conversations, narratives and locales in Peenya, Bangalore. Merging reality with fiction, these sequential narratives explore the themes of monotony and rou…

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Explore the story behind the ghostly beauty of marginalized communities in Tishk Barzanji's utopian creations. The Kurdish-born and London-based artist talks to us about his captivating work and poems.