"Born From The Terrain" solo art show of paintings, drawings & installation by Sarika Mehta at Latitude 28, F 208 GF, Lado Sarai > 11am-7pm on 10th April-20th May 2013

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Time : 11:00 am - 7:00 pm

Entry : Free

Place : Latitude 28, F 208 GF, Lado Sarai, New Delhi - 110030

Venue Info : www.latitude28.com | Nearest Metro Station - 'Saket(Yellow Line)'

Event Description : Bhavna Kakar, Director, Latitude 28, presents 'Born from The Terrain' debut solo show by Ahmedabad-based Sarika Mehta.
The title of the show according to the 33-year-old artist alludes to the fact that “something that can grow in a desert, cannot grow in a forest. In my work, for instance, what I am showing as landscapes does not have any name. It is born from the terrain. It’s surreal. It’s my first expression. Nature is also born from the terrain.”  
The show includes six oils on canvas, two pencil drawings on art spectrum paper, eight pencil drawings on rice paper, three watercolours and one installation.
Says Bhavna Kakar, Director, Latitude 28: “Mehta is a promising, young artist whose journey parallels her apprenticeship as a printmaker and her gradual shift to painting. But what makes Mehta’s work important and thought-provoking are the possibilities she offers in understanding the present psyche of man and our environment. Her work forces us to ponder about demography, dying human settlements and the debris of the past which is long lost gone and are endangered. For her installation, she has used an unusual setting, the hidden corners of the winding staircase which will come alive with an algae-like composition.”

Born in Ahmedabad to an architect-businessman father, Mehta completed her Diploma from C.N.College of Fine arts, Ahmedabad in Painting in 2000, and then worked in a studio space at Kanoria Centre for Arts. In 2004, she did her post diploma in printmaking from M.S.University, Baroda and started working at Priyasri Art studio while living in Baroda. She shifted to Ahmedabad in 2007 after marriage and her first solo show titled Pulled out from the roots in 2008 at Galerie Mirchandani + Steinruecke, Mumbai was a much deserved launch pad. “That was the first big break for me,” says Mehta, who consequently participated in an artist residency program in printmaking at Jean-Yves Noblet Contemporary Prints Studio, New York. Her last solo show was called A Fragile Storm that was held at Lemongrasshopper, Ahmedabad and in M.S.University, Baroda in 2009.
“Our generation is characterized by living patterns of noise, din and clutter. l intend to understand and decipher these patterns. The attempt would be to churn out a silent order out of this chaos, to try and unfold the mundane layers of everyday life to reach the silence in between each layer. Hence, searching the truth within is my inspiration. Thus, my visual vocabulary is centred on the reflection of emotions, struggle, fear and the burden of responsibilities in day to day life.” she says. 

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