Sakshi Gallery presents Matters of the Heart, an exhibition of recent works by Rekha Rodwittiya. In her long career spanning over 30 years, Rodwittiya has established a strong, politically vigilant feminist practice that has sanctioned her representation of the female figure in a non-voyeuristic manner. Distinguished and arresting in demeanor, her protagonists hold an unrelenting gaze, embodying the feminine space of survival, spirit of endurance and pride of empowerment. Her present suite has Rodwittiya engaging with the female body as a territory that holds a multitude of personal and collective female histories. She has filled these body tracings with a montage of private narratives and autobiographical imagery, creating an elaborate "second skin". And the intertwining vignettes hold resonances of truths and desires, memories and histories, hope and faith, articulating the universal matters of the heart.

About the artist: 

Rekha Rodwittiya was born in Bangalore in 1958. She completed her Bechlors in painting from the Faculty of Fine Arts, Baroda in 1981, after which she went to Royal College of Art, London for her Masters. She has had over 25 solo exhibitions around the world and her works are in a number of private and public collections in India, U.K., U.S.A, Brazil, Italy, West Germany, Switzerland, Sweden and the Netherlands. Rodwittiya has also travelled widely and lectured on contemporary Indian art for several fellowships and artist residencies in Sweden, France, the United States and the U.K. She lives and works in Baroda.

-Sakshi Gallery Mumbai

Image: © Rekha Rodwittiya