Om Soorya’s paintings show neither
the past nor do they really represent our own surroundings. They have neither
nightfall nor daybreak, neither cities nor villages, but images of both rural
and urban life. He says he lives surrounded by contradictions: "Villages
become urban when you displace someone, often improperly, from one place to
another. I talk about the nature of reality and urban and rural juxtapositions
as a search for the constant truth in the reality, which surrounds me. Reality
doesn’t merely mean the socio-political arena; it relates to the most inner
truth of everything. Conscious mind enters the real world and it searches for
the logic in reality. Here, all doubts on reality emerge by itself, from the
realms of the conscious mind. The question of existence and the reason of
birth, growth and death are the phenomenon to be unveiled. At the same time,
there is an inherent obligation to live. Concurrent to this thought, the
unconscious mind manifests an imaginary world of dreams. Ultimately, my works
are being just like a pendulum: in between the quest for total existence and
the anxieties over the present realities. The idea of life, death and the
confusion over the universe, are concurrently repeated in my works. Sometimes
the nature of the idea is a kind of contradiction on the present realities.
Born in 1977, Om Soorya completed his MFA from
