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Mom’s heart in art
Recently, Lalit Kala gallery saw an exhibition of watercolours of a different kind. Different in the sense that it seemed more like a biology class where a teacher might have tried to educate the students all about the reproductive process in a hum
an being, especially the child in the womb.
These works, titled Transit Spaces, were drawn by a young artist, Ruchika W. Singh.
She has made a comeback on the art scene after a gap of five years.
She states, “I didn’t actually stop working. My life changed after my first child was about to be born. Being a sensitive artist, I started to draw the feeling inside the womb and to my surprise, what I drew, exactly matched what is shown in the biology diagrams. I never had any interest in science though.”
Ruchika got a mixed response to her works that depicted various stages of the child’s formation using a minimum of colours like red, pink and white.
“Those who love art said it is a daring work as they could make out that I worked within the time and space construct. Those who still have to understand art, were taken by surprise! They thought such figures are the properties of a science lab!”
Ruchika, who did her MFA in 1999 from Delhi College of Art, has also travelled to Sri Lanka for a residency programme where she represented India recently.
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