The moment we hear the words ‘Line of Control’/ LoC, we straight away tend to view a line between the national borders, spaces, of conflict with our neighbouring countries and as mentioned in the curator’s concept note, at a level it restricts our behaviour and control. Then we gradually start to fine tune the LoC from the division of nations to states to districts to town or village to neighbourhood to lane to division to house numbers to room divisions and finally to the individuals having their own limitations in his or her inner self in the thought processes.

We the ten different artists together forming the Po10tial team came to the conclusion that it is we who limit or unlimited ourselves, and these lines of control further proliferate through us. Our installation was arrived at unanimously and as we all believed that we draw our own Lines of control, the installation began taking shape accordingly. The base depicts Nature which has its own lines of control, the transparent pole is a reflection of our inner selves, and each work, shaped like and inward pointing arrow painting portrays our mission to look within ourselves at our own Lines of Control.

Curated by JohnyML, 2016
At Birla Academy of Art & Culture, Kolkata, India