Exhibition essay by Seema Bawa · Kumar Gallery, New Delhi
An essay for Zharotia’s exhibition of mixed-media works at Kumar Gallery. Seema Bawa finds a continuous flow of twin images in the paintings, a duality between the visible and the invisible that is always in dialogue, and traces it to the role of chance and fate in the artist’s own life.
She describes the technique of tempera and pencil with transparent watercolour washes, and the horse as a recurring metaphor for the search for truth.
…an animal can talk to a flower, paper boat to a vase, man to the moon.
Seema Bawa
Summary by The Jai Zharotia Foundation. The full text is held in the Foundation’s archive.