Narayan Sinha has magicked a primordial world of dreams and shifting shadows, of humongous beasts that seem to have crept out of our deepest and darkest thoughts and are battling with one other in an abandoned old bungalow located in once gracious Queens Park in Ballygunge. With new high-rise apartment blocks looking down on it, the ongoing exhibition titled Firelight seems to be the old mansion’s last desperate call to save it from the wrecker’s ball, although that fate seems inevitable now. The bungalow was in the grips of parasitic vegetation that took almost a year to clear, after which its shaky structure had to be strengthened.
Sinha has conjured up this world of more than 100 works by assembling junk collected from various sources, his family being in the transport business in distant Nalhati. Sinha has created installations of intense beauty like the giant red bloom of Klieg horns and flying creatures with windshields.