I wish as a painter to explore moments and forms wherein seemingly life and non life, ritual and infinity come together,” said a renowned artist from New Delhi Neha Sharma.
Neha Sharma is here in the city for her solo show Sacred Geometry which is on display at Alliance Francaise de Bhopal. She talked about her works in a small rendezvous with The Pioneer. Neha Sharma works from her studio in Delhi. She has exhibited in solo shows in Hyderabad and Delhi. Neha participated in workshops in Cochin, Mumbai and an artist camp in Turkey and has been affiliated as Visiting Artist Beaux-Arts Nantes (France).
While talking about her works, she said, “In recent years, my preoccupation as an artist and painter has been on the fluid margins of the real and imagined. To be on these fluid margins is to seek fleetingly few moments of intimacy between thin edges of the visionary and non visionary, subjective and the objective of life. It brings into question in enigmatic ways, the so called logical existence and the whole structure of oppositions.”
Elaborating further, she said, “I speak of ‘fluid margins’ and ‘thin edges’ from the experience I most vividly remember of painting the series ‘Dancers of the Dark’. It all happened in ‘real time’ frame. But it was guided by an innate non-visible presence. I felt it like a call all around me but from nowhere in particular. I recall and read it as something intense and elusive. I am certain without that presence ‘Dancers in the Dark’ would have missed its moment on paper. That presence was there, within and around me, transforming itself into form and colour.”
“Other works I have done have been moved by something similar even though their gestures, energy and rhythm may seem strikingly different. It brings me to questions I can only dimly formulate,” she added. The play between optical consciousness and unconsciousness; meaning of symbolism, magical and mystical; unceasing play between cultural and natural can be defined as the works by Neha. This is her first exhibition in the city of lakes.
“I have been here in the city earlier too. But if I talk about my show I can say that people here enjoy art a lot,” said Neha. The exhibition would conclude here on Saturday.