The Open Studio / Boini Madhusudan
Boini Madhusudan
Rangasthalam
A whole street theatre, small enough to hold in two hands
Orange tinsel curls like a flame that will not go out.
Pink foil holds two beaded moons.
The mirror floor repeats them, so the stage has a second stage beneath it.
Scraps of tent cloth lift from the arch like hands waving after the show.
Behind it all a figure waits, half hidden.
The green cloth hem is cut in teeth, ready to be packed and carried on.
The work
Boini Madhusudan makes Rangasthalam as a small stage, only 15 × 12 × 11 cm. It draws on Veedhi Bhagavatham, a street theatre played in temporary tents. Madhusudan stitches and layers tent cloth into his forms. Here torn strips of cloth hang from an arch like flags. A mirror floor doubles the pink and gold centre at the back. For him the tent is a stage and a landscape. It keeps the memory of a show. It also keeps the masks performers wear on stage and in daily life.
In the artist’s words
“I assemble and stitch layered tent cloth into symbolic forms, translating theatrical drama, movement and gestures into physical artefacts. The tent cloth acts as an archive of the place where things happen, carrying memories of the performance and the constraints faced by the people. I reimagine the tent as both a stage and a landscape.”
- Theme
- Mask and inner self
- Material
- Mixed media and watercolour
- Size
- 15 × 12 × 11 cm
- Year
- 2025
- Edition
- 1
- Framed
- Yes
- About the artist
- Sn school of arts and communication
- From
- Hyderabad
- Code
- RC-437
