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About the artist
Nabanita Guha’s paintings imagine what one would see if the skin of the body was stripped away. She renders muscle, veins, fat into compositions that may be comparable to flora suspended in space. Her works are not anatomical studies but rather constructed from her rumination on what it is ‘to be’ a physical being. The feminist struggle has been defined by the demand to be seen as more than flesh, more than gender. Guha presses drawing inspiration from the legacies of Francis Bacon, Jenny Saville, Nalini Malani and Mithu Sen. She compels us to think of the body not only in relation to its social or psychological aspects but also its biological being, with its needs, urges, desires, repulsions and ultimately its mortality.
Nabanita Guha lives and works in India. She completed her Bachelors of Visual Art, Rabindra Bharati University, Kolkata. She has done her Bachelor’s Degree from the same institution. Selected exhibitions include: Bengal Beyond Boundaries by Aakriti Art gallery at Bikaner House, New Delhi and Only drawing will Remain by Terrain.Art (2023); Terrain Offline curated by Srinivas Aditya Mopidevi, Bikaner House, New Delhi, (2021); An Overwhelming Imagination, Curated by Sonia Sahni, Art Konsult, New Delhi (2014); The Emerging artist 2: An Indo-Korean Young Artist Exhibition, Seoul, South Korea (2013) and Stroke and Chisel Art presented by Emami Chisel Gallery, Kolkata (2012).
