At the glittering 2nd Award Ceremony, held in New Delhi on January 28, 2012, Navin Thomas was declared the winner of The ŠKODA Prize 2011, for his Exhibition: From the Town’s End…, by The Jury.
Exhibition: From the Town’s End…
In his latest solo show, Navin Thomas explores his continuing interest in the afterlife of salvaged electronic junk with a possible audio capacity, creating work that incorporates found objects as varied as old PCO telephones, former army loud-speakers, a customized hatbox, a PA horn from a mosque, and a toy that gleefully sings in Iranian which was found in the Chinese toy market in Chandni Chowk. Thomas’s work also examines how animals and birds react to household electronic appliances and the effects of living in close proximity with seemingly domestic magnetic fields.
Navin Thomas’s “From the Town’s End…” was shown at GALLERYSKE in Bangalore, from August to October 2010.
