Arranged in a circle up in the air around

a tree, chairs are suspended in space

and have a surreal look. Gunjan Tyagi’s

Fancy Meeting" is in her own words, “a

dialogue between experience and

information.” This circle of recycled

chairs suggests a conversation or

dialogue is taking place with the eternal

tree of life. Tyagi’s tree is a conduit, or

pretext, for engaging the audience in a

conversation on how disconnected from

experience we are becoming die to

technology, access to plastic words and

flat content-less information. Tyagi’s art

piece is a call to understanding the

wisdom of experience, the connections

between self and other, between

material and spiritual existence. As she

says, “ Our young generation are found

full of information but the question is ‘Do

they also carry experience or it is just an

information?’ Recognizing that the

culture of nature reaffirms our identity

this tree and these chairs look like they

are engaged in a hypothetical

conversation on the disappearance of

aesthetics and ethics, the limits to

growth, and the limited depth of

knowledge the information age has

brought into being.

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​John K. Grande