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Laxmi Jhunjhnuwala

• Flamingos at Lake Nakuru, 2011. Original

  

  'Jhunjhnuwala's installations are about a conversation between the ideas of the ephemeral and the permanent. One is about the tactile experience where one has the desire to touch the pigment and physically experience the work. While the other is about the visual experience, where given a few moments in front of these seductive works; the spectator is inevitably drawn by fleeting intangible moods. The perspex contains or shields the pigment from the touch. Jhunjhnuwala was also interested in the relationship between the reflective hard surface of the perspex, which captures the bouncing light and transitory images of the surroundings and the viewer experiencing the work, whereas the matt porous, delicate and fragile pigment creates pulsating evanescent expressions. These bodies of work are about revealing the universal truth about the material, journey and celebration of life.'

   

• Reprints

  

  The progressive layering of transparent colour allows Jhunjhnuwala to merge abstract space and depth with a sense of spiritual reality. Jhunjhnuwala works are an exploration of mysterious spaces – celestial and divine, untouched and unvisited – allowing the viewer to look beyond familiar spaces and connect with the spiritual. Jhunjhnuwala feels that her combination of colours and tones are suggestive and are therefore more powerful than a direct message.