Events & Exhibitions
When Knowing Bends
L N Tallur recasts and combines familiar iconography from nature, architecture, civilization, leadership and religion to challenge perception. Collaborating with Dokhra artist Suresh Waghmare and fifth-generation sculptor Yethin N, Tallur marries the handcrafted with the digital. A 3-D printed model composed of ‘strings’ becomes the base on which Waghmare wraps wax threads of descending gauges for Yethin to cast.
The 16 ft Dokhra sculpture 'Data Weave' was on display at Freedom Park, Bangalore, as part of Bangalore's arts and culture festival, BLR Hubba. Across six monumental sculptures, inherited craft and technology blend. Process, complex forms, and subject mirror one another. Familiar images become illusions, sites where knowing bends.
Artists's Statement
Generative artificial intelligence reshapes epistemic structures through diffraction rather than reflection. Familiar forms of knowledge are bent, scattered, and recomposed into patterns that appear intelligible but resist verification. This produces an illusion of understanding—where knowledge circulates as representation rather than inquiry and meaning becomes a simulation of itself.
