<p class="bodytext">Artisera gallery has brought together four contemporary women artists for the exhibition, ‘Myth, Memory, Meaning’. </p>.<p class="bodytext">The practices of artists Ashu Gupta, Rakhee Shenoy, Smruthi Gargi Eswar, and Sukanya Garg are rooted in the tradition of storytelling — traversing mythology, emotion, and embodiment. Although converging thematically, the artists have unique visual languages — mixed media, textile, painting, and illustration.</p>.<p class="bodytext">Ashu, 39, a graduate of NIF Global Raipur, describes her work as an “exercise in introspection”. She creates intricate repeated patterns and stiples, which slowly emerge into larger meditative forms, such as delicate depictions of birds, and human hands engaged in activity. Her eerie portraits reveal a head composed of a mass of floating eyes, and a woman who is in the process of dissolving into pixels of embroidery.</p>.<p class="bodytext">Ashu says her art is about things that are usually unobserved in everyday life. “In our mundane lives, we often don’t see the complexity and simplicity of life and nature,” she says.</p>.<p class="bodytext">She says viewers, after visiting the exhibition, might be able to garner the skill of appreciating simple things in their daily lives. </p>.<p class="bodytext"><span class="italic">Until August 16, 11 am to 6 pm at Artisera, Indiranagar. For details, visit artisera.com</span></p>
<p class="bodytext">Artisera gallery has brought together four contemporary women artists for the exhibition, ‘Myth, Memory, Meaning’. </p>.<p class="bodytext">The practices of artists Ashu Gupta, Rakhee Shenoy, Smruthi Gargi Eswar, and Sukanya Garg are rooted in the tradition of storytelling — traversing mythology, emotion, and embodiment. Although converging thematically, the artists have unique visual languages — mixed media, textile, painting, and illustration.</p>.<p class="bodytext">Ashu, 39, a graduate of NIF Global Raipur, describes her work as an “exercise in introspection”. She creates intricate repeated patterns and stiples, which slowly emerge into larger meditative forms, such as delicate depictions of birds, and human hands engaged in activity. Her eerie portraits reveal a head composed of a mass of floating eyes, and a woman who is in the process of dissolving into pixels of embroidery.</p>.<p class="bodytext">Ashu says her art is about things that are usually unobserved in everyday life. “In our mundane lives, we often don’t see the complexity and simplicity of life and nature,” she says.</p>.<p class="bodytext">She says viewers, after visiting the exhibition, might be able to garner the skill of appreciating simple things in their daily lives. </p>.<p class="bodytext"><span class="italic">Until August 16, 11 am to 6 pm at Artisera, Indiranagar. For details, visit artisera.com</span></p>