Pooja Iranna

Silently Continuing...

January 6 - February 11, 2023

Installation Views

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Selected Works

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Sculptural cityscape made from cement pins displayed atop a mirror.

Pooja Iranna, Pervasive Expansion 2, 2016-19, Staple pins and mirror, Set of 50 works, Display dimensions variable

Sculpture made from cement and staple pins that looks like a city scape of tall buildings

Pooja Iranna, Almost Clones, 2018, Cement, staple pins, 14 x 1 x 1 in each (35.56 x 2.54 x 2.54 cm each), Set of 50 works, Display dimensions variable

Sculpture of a building made of staple pins on cement block.

Pooja Iranna, Pervasive Mushrooming 9, 2019, Cement and staple pins, 12.5 x 9 x 3 in (31.75 x 22.86 x 7.62 cm)

Sculpture of a building made of staple pins on top of cement block

Pooja Iranna, Pervasive Mushrooming 10, 2019, Cement and staple pins, 15 x 10.5 x 2 in (38.1 x 26.67 x 5.08 cm)

Pooja Iranna, Pervasive Mushrooming B, 2022, Cement, staple pins and papier mâché, 15.5 x 12 x 3 in (39.37 x 30.48 x 7.62 cm)

Painting of a cityscape from birds-eye-view in grey and red.

Pooja Iranna, The Twisted Beam, 2012, Wax and acrylic on canvas, 60 x 84 in (152.4 x 213.36 cm)

Pooja Iranna, Standing at the Edge, 2010, Wax and acrylic on canvas, 60 x 84 in (152.4 x 213.36 cm)

Acrylic painting of a city scape from birds-eye-view in yellow, orange and red.

Pooja Iranna, Never Ending Expansion 1, 2021, Acrylic on canvas, 42 x 60 in (106.68 x 152.4 cm)

Acrylic painting of a city scape from birds-eye-view in shades of yellow.

Pooja Iranna, Never Ending Expansion 2, 2021, Acrylic on canvas, 48 x 48 in (121.92 x 121.92 cm)

Abstract pastel drawing - looks where two corners of a building meet

Pooja Iranna, Edge 1, 2022, Pastel on acid free paper, 30 x 22 in (76.2 x 55.88 cm)

Pooja Iranna, Edge 2, 2022, Pastel on acid free paper, 30 x 22 in (76.2 x 55.88 cm)

Pastel drawing of a cityscape from birds-eye-view

Pooja Iranna, Never Ending Expansion A, 2022, Pastel on acid free paper, 14 x 10.5 in (35.56 x 26.67 cm)

Pooja Iranna, Never Ending Expansion B, 2022, Pastel on acid free paper, 14 x 10.5 in (35.56 x 26.67 cm)

Pooja Iranna, Never Ending Expansion C, 2022, Pastel on acid free paper, 14 x 10.5 in (35.56 x 26.67 cm)

Pooja Iranna, Never Ending Expansion D, 2022, Pastel on acid free paper, 14 x 10.5 in (35.56 x 26.67 cm)

Pooja Iranna, Complex Symphony A, 2022, Oil based ink on acrylic sheet, 48 x 36 in (121.92 x 91.44 cm)

Pooja Iranna, Complex Symphony B, 2022, Oil based ink on acrylic sheet, 48 x 36 in (121.92 x 91.44 cm)

Pooja Iranna, Complex Symphony C, 2022, Oil based ink on acrylic sheet, 48 x 36 in (121.92 x 91.44 cm)

Pooja Iranna, Complex Symphony D, 2022, Oil based ink on acrylic sheet, 48 x 36 in (121.92 x 91.44 cm)

Pooja Iranna, Complex Symphony E, 2022, Oil based ink on acrylic sheet, 48 x 36 in (121.92 x 91.44 cm)

Pastel and watercolour drawing of city scape in shades of orange, red and yellow.

Pooja Iranna, Juxtaposed Expansions 8, 2015, Pastel and watercolour on acid free paper, 15.5 x 11.5 in (39.37 x 29.21 cm)

Pooja Iranna, Juxtaposed Expansions 9, 2015, Pastel and watercolour on acid free paper, 15.5 x 11.5 in (39.37 x 29.21 cm)

Pooja Iranna, Juxtaposed Expansions 10, 2015, Pastel and watercolour on acid free paper, 15.5 x 11.5 in (39.37 x 29.21 cm)

Pooja Iranna, Juxtaposed Expansions 11, 2015, Pastel and watercolour on acid free paper, 15.5 x 11.5 in (39.37 x 29.21 cm)

Pooja Iranna, Juxtaposed Expansions 12, 2015, Pastel and watercolour on acid free paper, 15.5 x 11.5 in (39.37 x 29.21 cm)

Pooja Iranna, Juxtaposed Expansions 13, 2015, Pastel and watercolour on acid free paper, 15.5 x 11.5 in (39.37 x 29.21 cm)

Pooja Iranna, Proposed Drawing 1, 2022, Ink on polyester film, 8 x 11 in (20.32 x 27.94 cm)

Pooja Iranna, Proposed Drawing 2, 2022, Ink on polyester film, 8 x 11 in (20.32 x 27.94 cm)

Pooja Iranna, Proposed Drawing 3, 2022, Ink on polyester film, 8 x 11 in (20.32 x 27.94 cm)

Pooja Iranna, Proposed Drawing 4, 2022, Ink on polyester film, 8 x 11 in (20.32 x 27.94 cm)

Pooja Iranna, Proposed Drawing 5, 2022, Ink on polyester film, 8 x 11 in (20.32 x 27.94 cm)

Pooja Iranna, Proposed Drawing 6, 2022, Ink on polyester film, 8 x 11 in (20.32 x 27.94 cm)

Pooja Iranna, Proposed Drawing 7, 2022, Ink on polyester film, 8 x 11 in (20.32 x 27.94 cm)

Pooja Iranna, Proposed Drawing 8, 2022, Ink on polyester film, 8 x 11 in (20.32 x 27.94 cm)

Pooja Iranna, Proposed Drawing 9, 2022, Ink on polyester film, 8 x 11 in (20.32 x 27.94 cm)

Pooja Iranna, Proposed Drawing 10, 2022, Ink on polyester film, 8 x 11 in (20.32 x 27.94 cm)

Pooja Iranna, Proposed Drawing 11, 2022, Ink on polyester film, 8 x 11 in (20.32 x 27.94 cm)

Pooja Iranna, Proposed Drawing 12, 2022, Ink on polyester film, 8 x 11 in (20.32 x 27.94 cm)

Pooja Iranna, Proposed Drawing 13, 2022, Ink on polyester film, 8 x 11 in (20.32 x 27.94 cm)

Pooja Iranna, Proposed Drawing 14, 2022, Ink on polyester film, 8 x 11 in (20.32 x 27.94 cm)

Pooja Iranna, Proposed Drawing 15, 2022, Ink on polyester film, 8 x 11 in (20.32 x 27.94 cm)

Pooja Iranna, Proposed Drawing 16, 2022, Ink on polyester film, 8 x 11 in (20.32 x 27.94 cm)

Pooja Iranna - Silently Continuing... - Exhibitions - Aicon Art 2024

Aicon is delighted to present Silently Continuing…, the gallery's second solo exhibition of New Delhi-based artist Pooja Iranna. The exhibition marks the artist's return to the gallery after her debut presentation at Bikaner House in New Delhi was cut short in March 2020 due to the pandemic.

Spanning the breadth of her practice, Silently Continuing… is an endeavor by Iranna to capture the sensations of a city as experienced by individuals, not as designed by architects and planners. The artist's new body of work is extremely sensitive, as it attempts to bring forth what an explosion of urbanization—and its standardization that we see today in the name of modernization and development—would mean for an individual in real terms. Through drawings on acrylic sheets, lens-based media (including video and photography), and sculpture using glass, concrete and staple pins, the works in this exhibition attempt to trace the effects of architecture on emotions and psyche while simultaneously finding traces of our emotional and psychological lives in the structures and patterns of architecture.

The staple is a material crucial to the artist's practice and harkens back to early experimentations in three-dimensional form. Resembling building models, they cleverly replicate many of the ideas in the lens-based works and paintings as well as formal aspects of composition, color, and form.

Augmenting the sculptural works in the exhibition is Iranna's engagement with the digital manipulation of images stemming from classical and contemporary architecture. The artist takes pleasure in allowing this evidence of distortion by technology to remain visible in her work, to both refine and adapt the original details and to comment on man's increasing dependence on technology for his own self-image.

Installation photography by Sebastian Bach