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Descartes writes: “I am thinking, therefore I am being”. Thereby Descartes takes a certain logic for granted: The logic of coming from one premise to a conclusion.

Abir Karmakar appropriates for his purposes this logic. Karmakar writes: I love therefore I am. Therefore we may use this logic in approaching his tenting images. But there is a difference: The major difference between image and text. Kamarkar adopts the logic of speech. This is the logic of reasoning with linguistic concepts. This logic he sets in a relation with images, which seem to challenge linguistic concepts in a special, disturbing, twofold manner.

Nils Röller New Delhi/Sanskriti Kendra

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Oil on canvas, 40 x 50cm 16 x 19,5 in

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Do we have any right to use the word logic here? Here, in front of Karmakars images?Karmakar labels his paintings with the title “I am loving, therefore I am being”

The word “therefore” challenges. Juxtaposing his paintings with this word, Karmakars dark twilightening images provocate even more. They challenge the power and tradition of western reasoning. The provocate those who base their scientific arguments on the reasoning of Descartes.

Descartes- philosopher and one of the most distinguished mathematician of history -wrote in his Discourse on method: I am thinking, therefore I am being.

Nils Röller New Delhi/Sanskriti Kendra

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