You can take the day off
A Moment in Color: Exploring the Space Between Rest and Reflection
This exhibition includes four series of drawings that bring deliberation to an environment envisioned in pink — a color chosen for its layered associations. At once delicate and soft, pink also recalls an era when bold, characterful women embraced its full-bodied vibrancy. The works reflect this duality: contemplative, controlled and careful on the surface, yet layered with multifaceted narratives.
My works revolve around the foundation of grid sheets reminiscent of my school days. The drawings transform the materials from their original purpose of learning to measure, calculate and write into an expression of the figure, its gesture and line. There’s a continuous interplay between my memories, the materials I use, and the mode of presentation.
The works have been displayed as a solo presentation at Blueprint 12 (New Delih), at General Items (Bangalore), and were also featured in the exhibition Navrasa: 9 Emotions, where they explored the emotion of Adbabhuta, or a sense of wonder.
In this set of drawings, I turn to my memory of the sense of singularity I felt as a mischievous child in school. Each artwork features one figure in the assembly line performing a different gesture, subtly breaking the rhythm. Spending time with these works reveals how this autobiographical detail cleverly informs the form itself.
I choose not to explicitly point out these connections. Instead, I invite you to spend time with the pieces — staring at them, searching them out, and uncovering these moments of deviation for yourself.
My childhood sparked an early fascination with coloring both within and outside the lines, embracing process and play.
This curiosity extended to my friends and to those who visit art stores, testing different materials. I was drawn to the free-spirited scribbles people create with pens, pencils, and crayons, celebrating the spontaneity of creative exploration.
These works are a curation of recomposed mark making, both my own and those I have collected.
This set of drawings began as an exploration of color and the form of a Venn diagram, focusing on how colors overlap to create a third one. I experimented with various color permutations and figurative forms, where two opposing gestures — one of punishment and the other of rebellion — intersect. The resulting overlap symbolizes a state of neutrality and balance, reflecting the space where conflict and resolution coexist.
