chroma saturation

Housed at 16, Feroze Gandhi Road, New Delhi, this space for The Gujral Foundation was designed by eminent architect Raj Rewal for Satish and Kiran Gujral. In 1971 when they moved into their new home, it featured split levels and bare plain white walls, washed with a coat of white paint. It served as a fitting backdrop to the artist’s varied explorations with different media and themes, evolving, growing and changing. Today much of the original character has been retained and restored by their son and architect, @Mohit Gujral and co-founder of the Trust, @Feroze Gujral. At the launch, coinciding with the @India Design Week, we chose to fill the empty space with color: colored light. Brutalist raw primary saturated color tones fill the voids, transforming the space though changing, mixing, bleeding colors. Deploying simple covelighting, glowing globes and spotlights, that evening the house took on a different personality. The multiplicity of views afforded through varying levels and staggered arrangement of spaces, allowed one to perceive and experience space and light in a surreal way.   A memorial to the life and works of Satish Gujral, and the celebration of the phenomenal work being done by @The Gujral Foundation, this light art installation called Chroma Saturation is also our salute to the American sculptor of light,@ James Turrell.