2 - 18 June
'Anatomy of a Flame' presented by Vadehra Art Gallery from New Delhi showcased a solo body of work by leading Indian contemporary artist Anju Dodiya, featuring her iconic mattresses, along with watercolours and photo-collage works.
Constructing compositional narratives that hinge the psychology of their experience on a powerful gatekeeper, Anju Dodiya works with images that echo the emotional theatre of an inner world. Dodiya’s protagonists are most often the female and so identifying form, parsed and assembled through poignant mythologies, autobiographical truths and the shared feminine spirit – professing a psychology of experience to the viewer. Importantly, Dodiya’s moving self-confrontations raise pressing questions around gendered identity. Her mattresses destabilize the proclaimed comforts of domesticity through incisive mark-making and often expressionist imagery.