“LIVE:WELL: (INTRODUCTION)

‘LIVE:WELL’ & INTRODUCTION FILM

For the majority of his life, London based artist and DJ Sunil Pawar’s self imposed remit has been to create positive depictions of power and strength, exploring the parallels and similarities between classic sporting pose with themes of everyday battles and survival. The battles that we all face on a daily basis.

Sunil’s life experience is resonant throughout this latest body of work which provides a window into the artist’s challenges. At the age of Nineteen, Sunil was diagnosed with a rare form of Epilepsy, two different strains in each side of his brain - to the amazement of his doctors, he still succeeds in living a full and varied life to this day. 

This sense of overcoming adversity brings a heightened tenacity to these vivid portrayals of strength and power, alongside his considered sense of composition and use of striking colour palette.

‘LIVE:WELL’ is an animated transformation of Pawar’s canvas artworks. A selection of five of his paintings, ‘Zeus, Troop, Odin, Now’* and ‘Warrior Charge’ have been converted into moving image.

A symptom of Pawar’s condition, is the experiencing of momentary lapses or ‘blips’, where the artist 

undergoes a loss of the concept of time and space.

The ‘freefalling’ nature of this sporadic loss of neural anchors is portrayed in the film by camera footage shot in the Făgăraș Mountains in Romania. 

Pawar subsequently paints in the footage digitally into scans of his paintings creating a dynamic spacial contrast to the film.