Srishti School of Art, Design and Technology

Siddhanth Shetty, a second year student of Srishti School of Art Design and Technology has won the Swedish art competition - Swedish Innovations -Indian Interpretations for the Nobel week.

As part of this All India, intercollegiate contest, Siddhanth has been selected by a jury of experts from various creative fields to win a weeklong, paid trip to Sweden.

Swedish Innovations -Indian Interpretations is a part of the annual, Sweden-India Nobel Memorial Week organised by the Embassy in cooperation with prominent Swedish companies in India. This year marks the fifth year celebration of the Sweden-India Nobel Memorial Week.It aims to enhance the interest of Sweden among Indians, and stress the important role of innovations and creativity in society.

The crux of this challenge was to explore an Indian interpretation to one of the numerous Swedish icons or innovations that are a part of our daily lives. From the ubiquitous zipper, the lifesaving pacemaker, the three-point seat belt, Bjorn Borg, to Skype are a few to mention from a multitude of others

Siddhanth Shetty’s entry –Indian Summer, was inspired by the iconic Ingmar Bergman, his jugular theme revolving around women and their plight. For Siddhanth, Bergman’s film The Virgin Spring, which is about rape of a young girl in rural Sweden found an echo in the universal plight of women with vernacular interpretations in India.The burnt matchstick is symbolic of the woman subjected to domestic violence from the psychological turmoil of Sati in ancient India, to non-consensual sex in today’s marriages and all the fits of rage in between.

The winning entries of this year's competition will be exhibited by the Embassy at an art gallery in New Delhi, and will also be displayed at the Nobel Memorial Party which is held at the Ambassador’s residence in New Delhi. The Party gathers close to one thousand influential members of society who will thereby get to see the exhibition. The entries will be photographed professionally and compiled into a publication that will be widely distributed.

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