SRISHTI ART at IAF EDITIONS brought together three artists Dashrath Patel, Sudhakar Chippa, and Unnikrishnan C whose practices are separated by decades, yet connected through a shared inquiry: how do landscapes carry memory, change, and human presence? From the 1950s to the contemporary moment, the works trace a poetic arc of Indian lands seen through colour, material, and time.
In Dashrath Patel’s works from the 1950s, nature is not described but sensed. Colour, movement, and translucent brushwork create floating spaces that evoke wind, light on water, and the rhythm of the natural world. The landscape becomes an experience of feeling, modernist, intuitive, and deeply lyrical.
Sudhakar Chippa’s practice enters the landscape at the point where change begins. Using soil, wood, terracotta, and geometric forms, he reflects on rural ground turning into cities, fields disappearing, new structures rising, and the memories attached to open land slowly fading. His works make visible the marks of human intervention on the natural world.
For Unnikrishnan, the landscape is carried within the brick, the basic unit of urbanisation. Carved and painted, the bricks resemble human bodies, holding the stories of movement, labour, and belonging. In his hands, building material becomes memory material.
Together, these works show how land is never still. It remembers, it transforms, and it bears the weight of human presence, across generations, eras, and lives.