Interstices - Traces in Light, Breath and Air, (Saatchi Gallery, London)
&
In the Garden (Art Houz, Chennai)
Images from two Solo Exhibitions
Installation view
thread and shadow drawings
Photo courtesy: Sunder Ramu
Installation view
thread and shadow drawings
Thyme
thread
23” X 14″
Lily
thread
23” X 14″
Orchid
thread
23” X 14″
Thistle
thread
23” X 14″
Lace-Plant
thread, glass
14″ X 3″
Vitrines
suspended thread drawings, glass
23” X 7″ X 7″
&
17″ X 7″ X 7″
Imprints
Painting on plaster and wood
Frame size: 7″ X 10″
Red Coral
Painting on plaster and wood
Installation view of white lace drawings
suspended thread and shadow drawing in shallow glass boxes
height : 14″
Water Algae
suspended thread and shadow drawing
11″ X 12″
Photo courtesy: Sunder Ramu
Installation view
thread and shadow drawings
Detail: Installation view
thread and shadow drawings
Magnolia
thread and shadow drawings in a shallow glass box
11″ X 5″
Nasturtium
thread and shadow drawings in a shallow glass box
8″ X 8″
Photo courtesy: Sunder Ramu
Hydrangea
thread and shadow drawings in a shallow glass box
11.75″ X 11.25″
Photo courtesy: Sunder Ramu
Cyclamen and Pod
thread and shadow drawings in shallow glass boxes
Photo courtesy: Sunder Ramu
Cyclamen
thread and shadow drawings in a shallow glass box
11.75″ X 11.25″
Photo courtesy: Sunder Ramu
In the Garden 2
Suspended botanical drawings in white lace, Stop-motion animation, projection
In the Garden 2
Suspended botanical drawings in white lace, Stop-motion animation, projection
In the Garden 2
Detail: Suspended botanical drawings in white lace with projection
In the Garden 2
Detail: Suspended botanical drawings in white lace with projection
In the Garden 2
Detail: Suspended botanical drawings in white lace with projection
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This body of work related to the Garden posits 2 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 stop-motion animations projected on transparent screens and delicate white plants (made of hand formed lace), allow the viewer to walk through a garden of light with fireflies, illuminated plants and unraveling embroideries of nasturtiums and hummingbirds.
The second space offered is of the memory of the garden – 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.
Threadwork
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:
SPACE, Wood Street Galleries, Pittsburgh, USA
2015-current:
Botanical Thread Drawings & Vitrines