The concluding exhibition of the LKA's Golden Jubilee celebration is slated for the first week of August 2005. The exhibition is titled ‘ Resonance' and would bring together the contemporary art practices in India in the last 50 years since the inception of LKA. Resonance would look at contemporary art practices as a manifestation of the ‘web of culture' that is specific to India permeating its land, people and events in a non-linear format. Sourced both from LKA's collections and from all over India, the exhibition would locate art in a larger continuum, covering many visual forms of cultural production including the rural to throw fresh light on contemporary art.

Between the Exterior and the Interior is the active luminous zone of the human mind, gray, without boundaries or physical form, suspended in the incessant electro-magnetic firing amidst a million neurons. The collaboration between the senses and the mind produces the cognitive apparatus which is constantly mapping many layers of memories and multiple external stimuli. The mind of the artist is like that of an acrobat swinging between the binaries of the real and the unreal, the artistic intent and unintended, latent meanings resonating the world around and some how simultaneously transgressing known categories. In newness is located the evolution of art, in continuous renewal, the pulse of time. The creative act counters the Universal that generates it in the first place and pegs its visuality to create culture-specific forms that the viewer decodes. The mind of the artist is at once autonomous yet held within the larger web of culture.

The contours of contemporary art are formed by the resonance of the artists' engagement of the continuum of the external and the internal, self-reflecting, dissenting, bonding with and contesting the societal processes. Once a work of art takes form, it some how freezes both the idea and the time it represents.

The exhibition is grouped in four conceptual categories :

• The Resonance of the Earth
• Soliloquy as social comment
• Mediating the Non-Self
• Resistance as Resonance of Time

These are, however, mutually inclusive categories allowing for a free flow of the ever changing, rather ameba-like contours of contemporary art. The exhibition would cover a wide variety of modes of contemporary art production to capture the constant Resonance.