Touched Retouched

The exhibition Touch Retouch' attempts to explore the artist's own engagement with their mental landscapes and the materials that they use to translate and represent their own personal language.

The constant leitmotif in the work of Murali and Binoy is their common muse, that of the popular, of the everyday, of the here and now. Images which they take from the industrial medium - of photography, of cinema, of the digital.

Using these industrialised mediums as the basic iconography of their work, the two artists then go back and reframe and use the processes of translation, transliteration, transmutation of the popular image.

Their work is not of abstract; rather it comes out from the real tactile world that they inhabit. Based on the everyday popular culture of the built environment, their anxieties, engagements, trials, tribulations, highs and lows, challenges, dynamism, makes them go back to the images which are framed.

The images are not just based on what they saw, but there is a re touching of the images through their aspirations and emotions that highlights the core of their work.

It is in this process of 'framing and refraining' of 'touching and retouching' that Murali and Binoy foreground their own language or their modes of representation.

The two artists have been trained and nurtured under the common geographical boundaries of Kerala. With their shared vision each has a distinct style, celebrating 'differences', each work resulting from an ongoing investigation into how personal and cultural meanings are formed and expressed.