SHIVANI AGGARWAL

Imperfectly Perfect

A Group of six Artists in collaboration with Studio Art.

Debasish Mukherjee
Megha Joshi 
Pratul Dash 
Rahul Kumar 
Remen Chopra W. Van Der Vaart
Shivani Aggarwal 

The title of the exhibition contains within it a conundrum, for how can something be simultaneously perfect and flawed? It is on the one hand authentic and on the other entirely subjective. The acknowledgement of the “imperfectly perfect" is a quest for beauty and joy and the liberation from a fruitless search for an ideal. The Japanese concept of wabi-sabi encourages the appreciation of imperfection, negating ideas of perfection and permanence. It is the imperfection that makes something meaningful and precious, signposting its existence, its purpose, a life lived.

Excerpt from the curatorial text  by
Deeksha Nath  |  2023

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