Artist Priya Kuriyan’s work, on display at the Quadrangle Garden of the India Habitat Centre here, is a satirical take through caricatures of a cross-section of Delhiites.
The exhibition, titled “Delhitantte”, is being held on the sidelines of the Asian Women’s Film Festival.
The caricatures bring out regular scenes from the streets, malls and markets of the city, and profile the idiosyncrasies of the people at these public spaces.
The works emerged out of an urge to capture and understand the characters and the contradictions of a city that is one large melting pot of cultures.
Writing about her exhibition, the artist says that being someone who moved to Delhi for work a few years back, the question of whether one truly belongs to the city or not is something that she, like many other inhabitants of Delhi, wrestle with from time to time. She feels that perhaps these drawings are a way to discover what it means to be someone “from Delhi”.
The other exhibition is on at the Annexe Art Gallery and is titled “Picture This Painting the Women’s Movement”. It is an exhibition of drawings and paintings by Radhaben Garva, who belongs to a small village in the Kutch district of Gujarat.
Radhaben has documented the rural women’s movement in Western India and beyond through her drawings.
Through her poems and bright illustrations of village life, she shows how women have overcome hardships.
Her images were published by Zubaan in 2014 and are mostly about the Kutch Mahila Vikas Sangathan, the NGO she works with, and in their campaigns for women’s rights, economic empowerment, and resistance to globalising corporations.
The third exhibition is titled “Now You Sea Them and Oranges and Lemons” by Shruti Shyam.
The first is a series in black ink that was created in order to showcase the similarities between certain letterforms of English typefaces, and certain marine creatures.
Oranges and Lemons exhibits a bold play of colours with two seemingly random subjects in contrasting hues.
The exhibitions are on till March 5.
