Text by Sumakshi Singh
“In the Garden” posits three stories.
The first is an homage to the experience of two particularly lush, illuminated, breathing, dying and resurrecting gardens which now outlive their creators– one planted by my mother and another by a Swiss Hermit in the Himalayas -truly portals into a dimension of magic and possibility.
The second space offered is of their memory – a flattening out of experience- a cataloging, archiving and preserving of lace-like words of personal letters which levitate without a ground to attach themselves to, fragile woven-skeletons of pressed flowers, leaves and seeds, floating in glass vitrines, seemingly embroidered on air, fossil like imprints of embroideries on plaster – a repository of the subtle armatures and structures upon which experience plumps itself out.
The third story is of the experience of memory – layered veils –thread-images concealed and revealed in a mist.
The invisible, the obscured and the absent grounds of these images make the literally missing “negative space” more present offering a look at the space “in-between”.
“People are over-trained to look at things. If they would learn to look in-between whole universes would open up.” – Swami Jnanananda Giri
2023:
Exhibit 320, Delhi, India
CSMVS museum, Mumbai, India
KNMA (Kiran Nadar Museum of Art), Noida, 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