Terrain: Carrying Across, Leaving Behind
by Gayatri Sinha “…the two arts, painting and poetry, as perceived in the scroll, bear remarkably close kinship. As the poems are all short, but filled with deep thought, the painting is terse but embodies vast sentiment - a quality all important in the art of the literary school of painting.” [1]
Can
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by Gayatri Sinha Gayatri Sinha: How do you arrive at the scrolls as a form? It cannot occupy all the space.
Nilima Sheikh: A dedicated studio space in Niharika, in our new home in Baroda, once we moved out of University accommodation made it easier to make work which would extend, beyond the drawing board.
The
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by Gayatri Sinha Gayatri Sinha: When you show your scrolls Nilimaji do you intend there to be an order in how they are viewed?
Nilima Sheikh: I hadn’t planned an order but eventually after the install of Each night put Kashmir in your dreams I did first in Bombay, then at Lalit Kala Akademi in Delhi, and then
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by Peter Nagy Like painting, poetry has the ability to reach the core of emotions, freed as it is from the rational, the logical, the conscious. Like poetry, painting has the ability to make that which is felt visible, that which is known in the heart accessible to the mind. Our lives are now entirely colonized by
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Like painting, poetry has the ability to reach the core of emotions, freed as it is from the rational, the logical, the conscious. Like poetry, painting has the ability to make that which is felt visible, that which is known in the heart accessible to the mind. Our lives are now entirely
read more Political Histories of Image Making: Mapping Land, Mapping Body
by Deeptha Achar The artwork presented here by Nilima Sheikh can be seen as part of an unbroken trajectory, a set of preoccupations that have engaged her for several years now, more or less since 2000. Most immediately, these works resonate with the themes and the representational strategies that can be seen at play
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