Specter of images (in memory of the gardener)
C24 Gallery and Asia Contemporary Art Week, New York and other groundless thread drawings
Detail: The specter of images (in memory of the gardener)
groundless tapestry (thread drawing)
16.5ft X 14ft
Detail: The specter of images (in memory of the gardener)
groundless tapestry (thread drawing)
16.5ft X 14ft
Installation view: The specter of images (in memory of the gardener)
groundless tapestry (thread drawing)
16.5ft X 14ft
Installation view: The specter of images (in memory of the gardener)
groundless tapestry (thread drawing)
16.5ft X 14ft
Detail: The specter of images (in memory of the gardener)
groundless tapestry (thread drawing)
16.5ft X 14ft
Installation view: The specter of images (in memory of the gardener)
groundless tapestry (thread drawing)
16.5ft X 14ft
Installation view: The specter of images (in memory of the gardener)
groundless tapestry (thread drawing)
16.5ft X 14ft
Detail: The specter of images (in memory of the gardener)
groundless tapestry (thread drawing)
16.5ft X 14ft
Detail: The specter of images (in memory of the gardener)
groundless tapestry (thread drawing)
16.5ft X 14ft
Details: The specter of images (in memory of the gardener)
groundless tapestry (thread drawing)
16.5ft X 14ft
Detail: The specter of images (in memory of the gardener)
groundless tapestry (thread drawing)
16.5ft X 14ft
Detail: The specter of images (in memory of the gardener)
groundless tapestry (thread drawing)
16.5ft X 14ft
Detail: The specter of images (in memory of the gardener)
groundless tapestry (thread drawing)
16.5ft X 14ft
Pitcher Plant
groundless tapestry (thread drawing)
56″ X 31.2″
Detail: Pitcher Plant
groundless tapestry (thread drawing)
56″ X 31.2″
Specter of images (in memory of the gardener) 2
groundless tapestry (thread drawing)
54″ X 34″
Specter of images (in memory of the gardener) 2
groundless tapestry (thread drawing)
54″ X 34″
Specter of images (in memory of the gardener) appears as an unraveled tapestry of white web-like threads which converge, diverge, knot and form into partial images of plant forms. An homage to the love of embroidery and the memory of the gardens created by the artist’s mother and a Swiss hermit (both since deceased), the disintegrating plant forms come together trying to create the semblance of a whole. The holding of fragments and the releasing of form both speak the language of memory- partially preserved, flattened and ghost-like- generating a levitating embroidery on air or perhaps they speak the language of a potential future – as the image awaits forming up and the part expresses a desire for the whole. This weightless image of future-past is a seeking of refuge in the transient image – a waiting to re-join the world of perceived form or an un-turning of the knots which created form to allow a dissolution back to the material from which it came.
Threadwork
2023:
KNMA (Kiran Nadar Museum of Art), Noida, India
Exhibit 320, Delhi, India
CSMVS museum, Mumbai, India
2022:
Asia Pacific Triennial QAGOMA
2021:
Aicon Contemporary, New York & 1X1 Art Gallery, Dubai
2020:
Kiran Nadar Museum of Art, Delhi
2019:
Sakshi Gallery, Mumbai, India
Hermès, The Chanakya, New Delhi
2019-current:
Architectural Thread Drawings
2018:
Wilfrid Israel Museum, Israel
Belgrade Biennale/ 58th October Salon, Serbia
2017:
Dr. Bhau Daji Lad Mumbai City Museum
India Art Fair/ FOCUS
C24 Gallery, New York, USA
2016:
Exhibit 320, New Delhi, India
Saatchi Gallery, London, UK & Art Houz, Chennai, India
2015-current:
Botanical Thread Drawings & Vitrines
2015:
SPACE, Wood Street Galleries, Pittsburgh, USA