Ananta

Ananta

In the solid, there is fluidity, there is form within form ... there is always more to see. In the serpent Ananta, who is the ‘unending’, constant and temporary share one space.

The Hindu deities invite us to discard absolutes like beginning, end, eternity and annihilation. This exhibition brings the future into the now, leapfrogs limits of vision, and allows the transformation of ideas as old as life itself.

Words by Harriet Sharkey

An Introduction

Sumit Sarkar has created Ananta, a new touring exhibition, which brings together the artist’s deep personal knowledge and understanding of the Hindu pantheon and its theology with his desire to re-imagine its iconography for a modern age.

Ananta is a provocative yet highly accessible exhibition in which the artist has adopted the use of high end manufacturing techniques, including the rapid prototyping process Selective Laser Sintering (SLS), and digital graphics to realise a series of digital sculptures.

Housed within an exhibition/temple environment, Ananta offers audiences an uncommon route to come into close contact with Hindu culture and motifs coupled with progressive technology.

Ananta has been created by Sumit Sarkar in association with The National Creation Centre at Lanternhouse and leading digital arts agency folly. It is available to tour from 2009.