Nature Morte presents a solo show of new works by Suhasini Kejriwal. Based in Kolkata, the artist’s newest works respond to and are meditations on the city itself. Seemingly realistic, her paintings are actually composed from a myriad of details recorded with patient observation over many years. The paintings, in both color and black-and-white, communicate the intensity of the city but also its pathos. Kaleidoscopic and bordering on the psychedelic, Kejriwal’s paintings revel in minutiae, overflow with information, and convey multiple viewpoints simultaneously. Her technique synthesizes the disciplines of painting, drawing, photography and collage into a cohesive whole. As in her earlier works, the artist lavishes her attentions on the surfaces of objects, articulating the differences of materials and replicating the infinite varieties to be found in both the natural and man-made worlds.

The centerpiece of the exhibition will be a large sculpture entitled “Monument.” The primordial geometric form of the pyramid has been constructed from the evidence of human life. At its apex sit the colorful toys of childhood, its central core is made up of the fruits and vegetables of countless family meals, its base holds the discarded plastic waste of consumer society. Kejriwal reconsiders the Vanitas Vanitatum, the collection of objects that signifies the transitory nature of life and our own ultimate mortalities.

Suhasini Kejriwal was born in Kolkata in 1973, where she continues to live and work. She received a Bachelor of Fine Arts degree from Parsons School of Design in New York in 1998 and a Masters of Fine Arts degree from Goldsmiths College, London in 2006. Solo exhibitions of her work have been held at Galerie Christian Hosp, Berlin (2010); the Anokhi Museum, Jaipur (2009), Chemould Prescott Road, Mumbai (2008); Nature Morte, New Delhi (2007 and 2005), and Gallery SKE, Bangalore (2004), among numerous group exhibitions in galleries and institutions throughout the world.

-Nature Morte

Image: © Suhasini Kejriwal
Courtesy of the artist and Nature Morte