In his latest solo show, on view at Delhi’s Vadehra Art Gallery, artist Gigi Scaria seems to be saying, “You can have everything you want, but at what cost?” Entitled Ecce Homo: Behold the man or How One Become What One Is, the exhibition includes Scaria’s sculptures, drawings and videos all created in recent years.
The artist takes the name of the exhibition from the title of the final book written by the German philosopher Friedrich Nietzsche. The philosopher believed that a superhuman is one who has the ability to manoeuvre through all the challenges that life throws at him.
For this show, Scaria extends Nietzsche’s idea and shows the consequences a man could suffer in order to become superhuman after the Nietzschean model. He places his works under his preferred theme of the urban life and its effect on humans. Scaria looks at socio-political conditions in an urban context and offers a mix of serious and playful metaphors through his art.
