Will a printout of this article farmed in a square hanging on a museum wall make it an art? 

The square questions the parenthesis and status quo. Art as a definition cannot be framed. It is personal and differs from person to person. Content is what rips off the contentment of art. You can’t think out of the box without a box. A constant need of fabricating a statement when there is none, puts art into constant conflict with the world. As its inherent nature is to reveal its own beauty to spectacle and its premise is so intimate that it cannot be hanged in a square for everyone to see. Art lives in a sacred place, space that is more than physical. Accessible to everyone but often found by few. As the film quotes “The square is a sanctuary of trust and caring. Within its boundary we all share equal rights and obligation”. But are we really ready to take the freedom that is bestowed upon us?

It was once a luxury only royals could afford. A spectacle of Art. (e)x royal museum in the film ‘The Square’ is working towards the democratisation of art viewing experience. How much trust a curator can put into the process of making experience of art utilitarian? How much of the directness the art can utilitarianism handle? How much belief can it expense to comprehend, accommodate and understand Art? World understands simple terms and art understands complexities. Will mundane ever find time from its life on repeat mode to stop for a while and look at something unusual. Does the constant need of proving sanity have time for madness?

Moreover, Art can be found in many places. In the 17th Century, Burglary was once regarded as an art along with astrology. It was a well appreciated form of art in the era of kings and queens. Many artists proclaim to be stealing from someone themselves. Art is outrageous. It breaks rules and peeps out of the norm. Hence constantly keeps evolving. Robbing someone is an art and Getting robbed is participating in art. It compels to question the standards of society, and finds answers in the outlaws. 

The Square lives by the promise of story on these lines.The film takes us behind the scenes of how media and communication works and explores the nature of art and utterly fails to do so. Art lives within and without a museum. Art is an idea that arises looking at the medium presented in front of you. The persona that is borrowed by luxury of reckless extravaganza that doesn’t recognise the line we draw and yet so eager to put it in boundaries. 

It lives us with one question though, which arches over the contemporary art scene - Does art really need the walking stick of positive discrimination? The Poor, the LGBTQ, the Refugees, the Marginalised. NO!