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With his new work, Nityan Unnikrishnan takes the viewer on a wild ride into his world The artist’s Mumbai exhibition ‘The Way Out’ forces us to ask: is it this world we inhabit or are we trapped in someone’s nightmare?
Lonely Crowd
‘Down here, next to me, in this lonely crowd…’ – Bob Dylan
‘Intolerably, I dreamt of an exiguous and nitid labyrinth: in the centre was a water jar; my hands almost touched it, my eyes could see it, but so intricate and perplexed were the curves that I knew I would die before reaching it.’
— from The Immortal, Jorge Luis Borges
Nityan Unnikrishnan’s work sits in the same open train compartment as the work of Indian painters such as Bhupen Khakhar and Sudhir Patwardhan. Unnikrishnan has a valid ticket for the compartment but he sits at an angle from his elders, his knees sticking into the corridor, looking out through a different window and telling very different stories.