Outsiders Within - Artworks by Arghya Priya Majumdar & Mahjabin Majumdar May 19, 2009

Outsiders Within - Artworks by Arghya Priya Majumdar & Mahjabin Majumdar. Sri Jogen Chowdhury will inaugurate the show. Arghya Priya Majumdar - Tragedy, unlike humour, holds the position of poetic moralizer as the pinnacle of human drama. The best dramatists, however, are also great comedians. While comedy receives less theoretical investigation, a great moralizer knows that tragedy and comedy are inseparable. Comedy is often disregarded as pure pleasure, as populist, and as immorally obscene. Triviality vanishes, though, when considering dark humour, or the grim and ironic humour that blends and complicates comedy and tragedy. An obvious concept of comedy focuses on the production of innocent fun and pleasure. This principle is, however, complicated in the art of Arghya Priya Majumdar whose paintings transcend the production of pleasure, using humour as a technique for popular comprehension and focusing on darkness as a critical weapon. As a combination of humour techniques parody, satire, caricature and cynicism his paintings compound a simple understanding of humour as merely pleasurable or humour as a political weapon, and are very much a part of a rich and complex tradition of the grotesque in fine art. Mahjabin Majumdar - The enigmatic artistic visions of Mahjabin Majumdar succeed in alternately amusing, enchanting and puzzling the viewer with their juxtapositions and metamorphoses of imagery which centre on the bizarre and incongruous and using visual sleight of hand convert mundane pictorial facts into something unusual. This transformation of the subject or form into magical ciphers employs the tension of contradiction with both precision and perception. Her art is a visual instrument using which the viewer may transcend convention and find a sliver of the essence of mystery.

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