Ganesh Selvaraj is a prominent artist-thinker from Chennai, known for his introspective approach and distinctive abstraction. A pioneer in the city’s emerging new school of art, Selvaraj has developed a unique voice, rooted in innovative techniques and a deep exploration of identity, existence, and the human experience....Does your brain see what the eyes see? When you "see", is it because it is, or because it should be? In an age of overwhelming information and stimuli, the brain instinctively strives to find meaning, attempting to define every sensation it encounters. Pattern recognition has been a vital survival tool, allowing early humans to spot hidden predators. This ability is so deeply ingrained that when confronted with a random pattern, the brain automatically seeks to make sense of it. If a random arrangement of shapes can be reinterpreted into something familiar, the brain will do so—like seeing faces in rock formations, shapes in clouds, or images that evoke Pareidolia and Apophenia. Selvaraj’s latest works with paper explore this very human act of interpretation. “This drive to interpret is so deeply ingrained in human nature, that we often fail to realize that simplicity exists without interpretation”, Selvaraj says. Through layers of lines, rectangles and carefully arranged colored circles, Selvaraj creates compositions that are hypnotic and contemplative revealing a profound truth: by trying to analyze and interpret, we turn the simple into the complex, approaching simplicity as if it were complex.

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