Talented artist Radhika Khimji’s new series of works, entitled ‘Found Gesture’ is on view at the Katara Gallery, Qatar.
Born in Oman in 1979, Radhika Khimji first did her BFA at the Slade School of Fine Art, and then completed her post-graduate studies at the Royal Academy of Fine Art, London. She has shown her work widely across galleries in the US and Europe, Including a solo at Bose Pacia, New York and group shows at the Saatchi Gallery and INIVA, London, apart from several international art fairs like Art Dubai, The Indian Art Summit, ARCO and Art Basel Miami Beach. Her work forms part of several notable international collections in appreciation of her talent.
Her paintings and sculptures point to an ongoing engagement with both surface and form. The surfaces of her figures are usually created through a conscious building of marks, found images and drawings. The temporal component of this particular active mark-making does implicate for the artist a certain artistic journey across the whole surface of the work. The outcome is a veritable, curious cartography of activity – both the act of drawing and remembering as well as the physical moving in space.
The purposeful censorship of specific communication apparatuses, namely faces and arms, invariably imbue her figures with an affected muteness. Even while the conventional communicative devices get muted, the figures tend to speak through their highly unique positions, movements and relationships. The result is a powerful juxtaposition. The playful configurations of fascinating forms shift the relationships existing between figure and ground.
The shifting perspective in her installations, to go with her combinations of both palimpsestic textures and surfaces, creates space for endless conceptual possibilities. This openness has been attributed by Vincent Honoré to the artist's ‘(i)nterconnections between an exploration of Indian, Arabic and European formal structures together with the different movements of traveling, reading, and dancing …’
Born in Oman in 1979, Radhika Khimji first did her BFA at the Slade School of Fine Art, and then completed her post-graduate studies at the Royal Academy of Fine Art, London. She has shown her work widely across galleries in the US and Europe, Including a solo at Bose Pacia, New York and group shows at the Saatchi Gallery and INIVA, London, apart from several international art fairs like Art Dubai, The Indian Art Summit, ARCO and Art Basel Miami Beach. Her work forms part of several notable international collections in appreciation of her talent.
Her paintings and sculptures point to an ongoing engagement with both surface and form. The surfaces of her figures are usually created through a conscious building of marks, found images and drawings. The temporal component of this particular active mark-making does implicate for the artist a certain artistic journey across the whole surface of the work. The outcome is a veritable, curious cartography of activity – both the act of drawing and remembering as well as the physical moving in space.
The purposeful censorship of specific communication apparatuses, namely faces and arms, invariably imbue her figures with an affected muteness. Even while the conventional communicative devices get muted, the figures tend to speak through their highly unique positions, movements and relationships. The result is a powerful juxtaposition. The playful configurations of fascinating forms shift the relationships existing between figure and ground.
The shifting perspective in her installations, to go with her combinations of both palimpsestic textures and surfaces, creates space for endless conceptual possibilities. This openness has been attributed by Vincent Honoré to the artist's ‘(i)nterconnections between an exploration of Indian, Arabic and European formal structures together with the different movements of traveling, reading, and dancing …’
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