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Afflicting the Myths With Radical Interfacing
The ramification of sourcing myths & legends are usually floated in the form of textual complexity as well as grandeur of expression while it unpacks a sinuous narrative that tells tales at different psychosocial levels, at times evoking the primordial in humans. In its thorough excavation, nature that often lies latent in us is summoned to respond to the archetypes of which myths are a repository. The reactive mechanism that works up the human mind to the level of stupor or call it the extra – sensory state, vis-à-vis the archetypes, usually remains an unreachable terrain in any other mode of thinking compared to what myths may exhort in us as they are the most pertinent portal to the collective unconscious.
But Ronni Ahmed’s invocation of myths & legends has a definitive quirkiness to it – a dimension that apparently reveals his ulterior motive, intent as he is on interlacing various myths, historical legends, and folklore to devise his own chef-d’oeuvre. He thoroughly shakes the ground in which these tales are traditionally embedded-inscribed as they are on the social fabric as localized memory leading to communal cohesion as his is a goal of bringing out a characteristic shift in the mapping the mythos alongside expressing a deep disbelief in the power vested & privilege assigned to the logos.
He sets off an untying of the knots with social & psychological implications-to tease out new meaning as well as to venture beyond meaning. Ronni utilizes the mental surge that these tales bring forth & translates that into a visual deluge that serves to unhinge them from their context. The result has been an overwhelming 100 by 10 feet canvas which is a meditation on Noah’s Ark - the Biblical legend of the messiah whose mammoth boat was the refuge for a pair of every species & a way for him to ensure continuity of all forms of earthly life after the apocalyptic Deluge.
Through this gargantuan project, the artist remaps the cultural signifiers to his heart’s content, assigning value to the hitherto undervalued stories & events, bringing all texts – both overrated & underrated – into the level playground of art, which is a newly cultivated space of a conjurer who travels the length & breadth of historical time, defusing linearity, defying convention.
In antagonism to the submissive mind with the habit of taking the trouble to carry the sacramental cargo from one era to the other or from one domain to another, relatively unharmed during travel, Ronni musters an imaginative delirium akin to myths & folklores but creates a lore using the remnants of other lore.
Article submitted Thursday, February 02, 2012 & read 12 times.
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