Sudipta

Hailing from Silchar (a town in Assam), Sudipta?s artistic excursion started when she visited Shantiniketan which changed her life forever. The beautiful vicinity captured her imagination. It was as if she set foot on its land and it was then that she knew that she was willing to study, learn and practice art. Initially, it was all about Rabindranath Tagore but later was inspired by Shantiniketan works of Benode Behari Mukherjee, Ramkinkar Baij and Nandalal Bose. In Sudipta?s recent body of works, i.e., This Boat with a Broken Rim curated by Phalguni Guliani, presented by Mumbai Art Room at Kamalnayan Bajaj Art Gallery, and is supported by the Inlaks India Foundation, she delves into her ruminations on the paper medium, the impact residencies across the world have had on her practice, and where her recent spell at the Harvard Fellowship is taking her works. She presents her works through mixed-media utilizing paper dyed in different colours and wooden boards. It speaks in a voice that is undeniably her own, they are united in their clarion call for imagining a world that can exist without such restrictions. It is in such a world that walks precariously but by one or another, in an expanse of libertarian promulgation and waves of geological change. Each of these works addresses the fragmented realities of border regimes and arbitrary assemblages, as experienced by both body and object as it passes through time.