Ashish Moga's 'Inorganic' depicts human-technology relation

Man enslaving himself to technology is the main theme of "Inorganic" - a solo art exhibition by artist Ashish Moga, at AIFACS. The exhibition will be held till April 5.

The artwork focuses on the artist's understanding as a spectator of how humans in the present century are utilising their technological know-how in manipulating, controlling, and sometimes even interfering, and transforming natural terrains as well as natural processes.

Moga's artworks also lead the viewer to realise that with the boom in technology in the past few decades, humans have become increasingly dependent on electronic gadgets. Moga very interestingly renders this seamless integration of a crust of electronics on the body of the human and how these are eventually going to supplant every perceptible phenomenon that arise out of human interactions.

The artist's artworks represent human beings in a very cyborg-like form where technology comprises basic components of electronics like resistors, capacitors, diodes, transistors, transformers, wires and the likes.

In order to bring the quality of verisimilitude, this engineering graduate from Dehradun uses acrylics, watercolours, aluminium rivets, wires, and other electronic paraphernalia. "These reinforce the idea that humans have accepted that these changes in life are necessary for daily functioning and that we must navigate ourselves in this entangled network of natural and artificial objects," says the artist.

Moga feels, "Interacting with an electronic interface is how most people's days begin and end these days, where we are all trying to express human emotions through something as virtual as emoticons." "I as an artist, have foreseen this dangerous reliance on these seemingly benign and beneficial gadgets are actually instruments that will ultimately retard our sensitivity and intelligence towards life and the world around us."