A group show at Bose Pacia, New York

‘Conundrum’, a significant group show, takes place at Bose Pacia, Brooklyn, New York. It features paintings, drawings, sculptures, apart from mixed media works that incorporate fabric wrapped tree roots and hybrid human/animal & animal/plant forms, apart from technically modified figures.

The participating artists work within an aesthetic paradigm, to explore different modifications and derivations of various organic forms and constructs. Anita Dube explores critical ideas, visually compelling and at once, personal and political in nature.

Traversing across a lexicon of gestures, inscriptions and images, Raqs Media Collective invents novel visual concepts, which question artistic norms, systems of representation and multiplicity of space. Raqs Media Collective, formed in 1992 in Delhi by three new media practitioners Monica Narula, Shuddhabrata Sengupta and Jeebesh Bagchi, creates compelling contemporary works. The three studied at the Mass Communications Research Centre at New Delhi’s Jamia Millia Islamia University. They formed SARAI, a research center, at the CSDS, in 2001.

Aditya Pande, born in Lucknow in 1974, graduated from the National Institute of Design, Ahmedabad. The artist's mixed media work expertly combines computer graphics with drawing, painting and collage. Computer generated drawings engage with mythical beings and cartoon-like characters to create hyper-imaginative paintings, which subvert traditional processes.

Arunkumar HG, born in Karnataka in 1968, did his BA and MA in Sculpture from Faculty of Fine Arts, M.S. University, Baroda. He prefers to work in sculptures that are composed of various found materials, adding some photographic work as well as wall reliefs. They look explore the concept of Land and all that it might entail and elaborate upon: metaphors for both human and social bodies; questions related to ownership and usage; the rural populations migrating to urban centers.

Suhasini Kejriwal, born in Kolkata in 1973, received her BFA at the Parsons School of Design, New York and an MFA at Goldsmiths College, London. She is known for her fabulous and elaborate paintings that depict natural vegetation as well as anatomical forms. Upon closer examination, lush and dense landscapes deftly reveal tropical flora fauna, human organs, insects and other anatomical forms.