In her new series, entitled ‘City Wakes Up Inside Me’, Nayanaa Kanodia tries to grasp the architectural and social metamorphosis of a metropolis. It apparently conveys the importance of the city heritage and history in the context of our daily existence.
The series just showcased at the Mumbai based Museum Gallery points to the ramifications of unplanned and haphazard development, causing grave damage to our heritage. In essence, ‘City Wakes Up…’ is an effort to understand the metamorphosis in the architectural and social make-up of a metropolis – a microcosm of our world at large.
Her paintings are charged with deceptive simplicity coupled with a mirthful lyricism Elaborating on them, renowned art critic Ranjit Hoskote has mentioned that that waking life and the life of dream flow together in her paintings. She does not treat art as a universe separate from the concerns of ordinary life. In fact, life and its eccentricities prompt her to paint.
The artist strives to depict the society caught between traditional values and modern way of life. Her paintings deal with the arising dichotomy we are faced with in our desperation to preserve our roots, traditions and identities.
A sense of nostalgia pervades her works. In one of her earlier shows, she portrayed peculiar professionals slowly fading into oblivion and who would no longer be a part of the changed cityscape. Ordinary people, their joys and sorrows, and their economics of survival intrigue the artist.
Her work reflects the idiosyncrasies of people, objects and places around. A plethora of decorative details seep into them, wherein compositions are rendered in flat surfaces and tangents that seem almost textured, woven and embroidered with rhythmic patterns.
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