Korou Khundrakpam

I was born in Manipur, with the backdrop of violence, green fields, lies, and the songs of the place. Always accompanied with a certain perplexity concerning identity and the ideal, I started questioning the "˜reality' and purposefulness of our existence sometime along my childhood. And the thought never left me. These concerns inform my art practices and vice versa. Art has been like a laboratory where I perform my own personal experiments with truth. It is a medium, not only for expression but the very process of synthesis of many of my notions on existence.

Having led by my affinity to the visual art, I moved ahead in that direction and later graduated in Fine Arts (painting) from College of Art, Delhi. I have spent the recent years mainly exploring the possibilities of the medium of visual art, and application of the knowledge on understanding and analyzing the potentials of the relation of art with the other facets of human existence. And perhaps see in what ways art can contribute in understanding the nature of, and perhaps, in finding a solution (if at all it is possible) to the dilemma of the human condition. My naivete notwithstanding, it seems to be the only way to move on.

Graduated from College of Art, New Delhi with BFA (painting) in 2009