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Ishara Art Foundation presents Only Life, Myriad Places, a major solo exhibition of Sudarshan Shetty. Celebrating the global premiere of the artist鈥檚 latest film 鈥極ne Life Many鈥�, the exhibition marks the first survey of Shetty鈥檚 moving image works, presenting rarely seen videos, multi-media installations and sculptures.

Sudarshan Shetty鈥檚 practice traverses the inner and outer realities of everyday life. Blurring the boundaries between dreams and wakefulness, memories and fantasies, objects and spectres, his works foreground the transient and ever-changing nature of all things. In Only Life, Myriad Places, one is taken on a journey into the labyrinths of the mind, captured through moving images and elaborate mise en sc猫nes. Places, people and stories that seem familiar become estranged. Viewers are invited to contemplate whether the films are a depiction of someone鈥檚 dream, or if they are within the dream of the film鈥檚 characters.

The exhibition at Ishara features eight significant works from Shetty鈥檚 vast oeuvre, presenting his rare and deep interest in the musical and literary traditions of South Asia. In the unique form of interdisciplinarity that his practice advocates, a key motif that runs throughout the exhibition is a 鈥榩oetics of listening鈥�. Videos, images, objects and texts assume a fleeting presence in Shetty鈥檚 repertoire, as if they were musical notes that are at once real yet ungraspable, repetitive yet novel.

Shetty鈥檚 practice considers art beyond its museological after-life that aims to fix, reify and preserve objects for posterity. Instead, his works invoke realms of the sacred, the mystical and the mundane that are everchanging. Residues of physical objects become after-images lingering on in one鈥檚 mind as viewers move from one room to the next. By prioritising the act of hearing over seeing in one鈥檚 experience of art, One Life, Myriad Places is a call to sense the world in multiple ways.