Artforum Review

Artforum Review

Gigi Scaria | All About This Side

12/01/2017

"Scaria’s barren cells, built to house the masses, express what the press information calls “the painful truth of modern existence” as well as “environmental destruction and [the] exploitation of natural resources.” Scaria is a critic, and his own work seems to rebuke so-called pure, reductive art and architecture. Clement Greenberg asserted that “decoration is the specter that haunts modernist painting,” unwittingly echoing Le Corbusier’s view that it is the enemy of modernist architecture, and Scaria likewise offers a minimalist (dare one say puritan?) revision."

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Hyperallergic Review

Hyperallergic Review

Gigi Scaria | All About This Side

09/19/2017

"In Gigi Scaria’s All About This Side, exhibition at Aicon gallery, the buildings become genuinely surprising because they are allegorized in myriad ways that reveal a history of varied uses for the idea of a dwelling place: surrealist structures, temples, edifices confected from minerals housed in natural rock, features of the landscape, repeated theoretical design templates that are ostensibly created for people though no humans are in evidence."

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ArtAsiaPacific Review

ArtAsiaPacific Review

Gigi Scaria | All About This Side

09/04/2017

"In the title photograph of Gigi Scaria’s first major solo exhibition in the United States, a stretch of brick homes is viewed from behind the grates of a metal fence. This physical border is not only the material manifestation of the distance between the photographer and his subject, but also signifies the many degrees of separation between both the upwardly mobile and more rooted social classes of Scaria’s India and their economic aspirations."

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COBO Social Review

COBO Social Review

Gigi Scaria | All About This Side

08/26/2017

"Talk about urbanization to any Indian artist and they will probably get their hackles up. Rapid expansion and accommodation for India’s growing merchant and professional class has led to the wonton demolition of old buildings and historical architecture. Furthermore, swift encroachment on agricultural and rural populations has outstripped the provision of housing for the dispossessed. For many artists, this contentious subject matter has become the mainstay of their practice as they hold a mirror up for the rest of us to see what exactly is taking place."

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Blouin Artinfo Preview

Blouin Artinfo Preview

Gigi Scaria | All About This Side

08/22/2017

"The exhibition deals with the themes of migration and displacement. The works on display draw attention towards these concepts through in-depth investigations of urban topographies, modern city structures, and the consequences of these elements for people who live among us."

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Architectural Digest India Review

Architectural Digest India Review

Gigi Scaria | All About This Side

08/11/2017

"Scaria has always been comfortable highlighting painful truths of urban existence. He clearly casts his assertions on everything perceived, imagined, and hoped for about cities and our lives within them. The show is a commentary on the fact that the future we imagined has already become a burden to carry forward."

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The Indian Express Feature

The Indian Express Feature

Gigi Scaria | All About This Side

08/06/2017

"Engagement with the environment, urbanisation and migration have dominated Scaria's work for over two decades now, ever since he moved to Delhi from his hometown Kothanalloor, a village in Kerala. With layered works that address the past, present and the distant future, Scaria has consistently reflected on the complexities that we live with."

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