VADODARA: You could not have missed the spectacle of colourful kites covering the skies during Uttarayan festivities every year. But have you ever seen a kite floating in mid-air without any support in the middle of a room, defying the rules of gravity? Surprised? A white kite prepared by artist Caroline Mackenzie is leaving many art enthusiasts, who visited a city-based art gallery, stumped.Artcore, a United Kingdom-based gallery and a visual arts charity organized an exhibition titled ‘Kaipo Che! Residency and Artists camp show’ on Sunday.The exhibition is a part of the residency program where three artists from the UK participated along with seven artists from India.“My interest lies in the suspension and many of my artworks tease the law of gravity. I tried to use the materials used during the kite festival and make a piece of art by fusing gravity with it thus giving them an abstract texture,’’ said Caroline Mackenzie, one of the British artist.Daksha Patel, another UK-based artist, who specialises in mapping, tried to visualise the desert of Kutch that she saw while she was on plane before she landed in Gujarat.“The experience has been overwhelming. Not only did I get to interact with great artists and learn from their work, I had one of the best experiences of hospitality here,” said Jackie Berridge, another British artist whose work has been featured in the exhibition.“The main idea behind this residency program was to facilitate interaction between Indian and international artists. We did not want the interaction to be limited to cultural sector. We wanted international artists to understand the art scenario in India and the struggle that Indian artists have to face after they graduate from art schools”, said Sandhya Bordewekar, curator of the exhibition.“Also, we wanted them to make artworks inspired from India, the local surroundings and the various festivals that are celebrated at this time of the year”, she added.Apart from three British artists, people also got to see artworks prepared by artists including Arunashu Chowdhury, Abhishek Dodiya, Debashish Dutta, Ambika Indulkar, Sachin Karne, Bakulesh Joshi, Rahul Mukherjee and Indrapramit Roy, most of whom are connected with the famed fine arts faculty of M S University.

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