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"...my work is more of a critique and I am not trying to provide any answers to the question of violence." - T V SANTHOSH

Adopting and manipulating media-generated images, T V Santhosh uses his body of work to raise ethical and philosophical questions about the current culture of violence we are immersed in, and the skewed ways in which it is represented to us. Santhosh's paintings expose the multiple readings inherent in the... "...my work is more of a critique and I am not trying to provide any answers to the question of violence." - T V SANTHOSH

Adopting and manipulating media-generated images, T V Santhosh uses his body of work to raise ethical and philosophical questions about the current culture of violence we are immersed in, and the skewed ways in which it is represented to us. Santhosh's paintings expose the multiple readings inherent in the situations they depict, forcing us to pause and question the veracity of the images and information we receive on a daily basis through the current news media.

By inverting their colours and turning them into their negatives, the artist moves away from chronologic and geographic specificity, conferring these works with global resonance. "The distinctive stylistic treatment, which makes Santhosh's paintings recognizable without being predictable, subsumes three cardinal elements: first, a mode of representation that has erroneously been termed as photo-realism; second, a strict turning of chromatic scale; and third, an incremental transfiguration of the material, by degree and detail, that is all the more shocking for its unobtrusiveness." (Ranjit Hoskote, "Transfigurations at the Margin of Blur: Recent Paintings by T V Santhosh," One Hand Clapping/Siren, Mumbai: The Guild, 2003)

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