Project: Ambiance: silent fields (1997-2019)
Goswami's powder brick has been exhibited in different public places like museums, cultural centers and galleries. He tries to find a particular space through our phenomenal material world that gives us a flavor of the spiritual world: transformations of spaces that can lead anyone to a mystical world of known or unknown surroundings. It is a metaphysical space as Goswami describes it: “I offer a place of meditation that is inaccessible.” It corresponds to a state of mind, establishing thanks to the specific atmosphere. Trying to create appropriate conditions would correspond to the search for atmosphere: it is the material that sums it up. The “carpet” is made of brick powder: this material is the residue of a previous construction.
We are exploring here, in a way, the territory of intuition of the material. His text continues by detailing the action: "During walks in the city, in the street my gaze fell on manhole covers. I was inspired by these “objects”. I took one imprint, by a molding made from clay. By this molding, we can identify the place, its physical and geographical location. The molding process resembles a measuring device which records a precise moment." Thus, the installation work offers, at a glance, a form, while claiming the status of “art object” which it holds in essence: the lost poetry of a place. This was the formal, artistic, and strategic challenge of this project.