Born in 1978, Benitha Perciyal received a BFA, followed by an MFA in Painting and Printmaking in 2002, from the Government College of Arts and Crafts in Chennai. Her group exhibitions include: From Surface to Origin: Journeys through Recent Art from India and Thailand at Gallery Soulflower, Bangkok, (2008), Explorations - Fluid Signs: Perceptions and Identity at the Lalit Kala Akademi, Hybrid Trend, Seoul Art Centre, Seoul. Perciyal has won several awards and scholarships, the most recent one being the “Promising Artist Award” in 2006. She lives and works in Chennai.

ESSAYS

Memory, Materiality, Sediment: Benitha Perciyal

by Amrita Gupta Singh

The French philosopher, Felix Guatarri’s proposition of an ‘ecosophical praxis’ [1] adjoins to Benitha Perciyal’s modes of seeing and making that is transversal and interdisciplinary, enfolded in sensory meanings, social flows and human subjectivity. Guatarri speaks of processual paths between three

Ode to a fierce fecundity

by Sadanand Menon

Published in Art Chennai, 2012

Benitha is among the few contemporary artists who exults in celebrating the sensuality of memory, erasure, trace. Her work consistently remains an ode to the ephemerality of the experience of a fierce fecundity.

The delicacy of concerns here is as profound

Benitha Perciyal

Memory, Materiality, Sediment: Benitha Perciyal

Ode to a fierce fecundity

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