MATERIAL NARRATIVES: EXPLORING EVERYDAY OBJECTS AS ARTISTIC MEDIUM IN CONTEMPORARY ART

This paper examines how contemporary Indian artist transforms everyday and domestic material into primary medium of artistic expression and storytelling.Moving beyond traditional technique of paint and canvas many artist experiment with objects such as utensils, Clothes, Mud, Vessels and other ordinary material to construct visual narratives.Drawn from lived environment these materials carry Material memory, temporal memory, sensorial memory, embodied memory and experiential meanings that extend the understanding of painting, surface and form.The study proposes that objects used is artwork are never ordinary they bear traces of time, touch and context.Marks of ageing and repair allow object to hold histories of lived experience.When relocated into artistic space these artworks invite viewers not only to engage visually but through memory, association and embodied recall.Audience builds personal narratives around such objects, connecting them to spaces, routines, labor and everyday life.In this way, artwork becomes a medium where material presence evokes memory and subjective storytelling.