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"Disequilibrium and flux are among the mainstays of Sudarshan Shetty’ work. He uses juxtaposition, displacement and subversion as conscious strategies to upset accepted ways of seeing….He uses irony to make a pertinent comment on prevailing consumerist attitudes in market-driven scenarios – he is informed by the city in which he lives as also by prevailing global aesthetics. Shetty’s preoccupation lies with the emotive content of objects, as... "Disequilibrium and flux are among the mainstays of Sudarshan Shetty’ work. He uses juxtaposition, displacement and subversion as conscious strategies to upset accepted ways of seeing….He uses irony to make a pertinent comment on prevailing consumerist attitudes in market-driven scenarios – he is informed by the city in which he lives as also by prevailing global aesthetics. Shetty’s preoccupation lies with the emotive content of objects, as well as with the changing emotional contexts that get created by shifts and through sheer dint of association. Increasingly, his is a poetics of loss" (Anupa Mehta, "Unsteady Equilibrium", India 20: Conversations with Contemporary Artists, Mapin Publishing, Ahmedabad, 2007, p. 188).

In the present lot, a horizontal diptych, Shetty juxtaposes several jugs of milk with an eerily transparent fish that seems to be swimming in a milky, swirling river. Paired with a barren landscape, the artist, a strong believer in subjectivity and multiple layers of meaning, has deliberately left this piece to the viewer to interpret.

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