Shapes and Sizes

Through her latest exhibition “Sacred Geometry”, the 39-year-old artist explores how images become part of our consciousness. “Symbols become part of everyday living and rituals. We go to temples and then relate to particular symbols. I am deeply drawn to the stupa and the linga as pure forms,” she says, “I am playing with the idea of forms, geometric space and visual language. I have dealt with optical consciousness. It is a visual of celebrating life in many forms. The great element of invisible plays a major role and how the invisible becomes visible.”

Among the many works in gouache and pigment, buildings twist and turn in the canvases and give architecture a whole new meaning. Tiny human figures dot Sharma’s canvases, standing next to tall stupa-resembling poles.

For the artist, creating these shapes into imaginary landscapes over the course of three months was much like “a meditation, a sadhna, and music that one chants”. Sharma says, “Geometry is related to human beings and it shows how human geometry and cosmic geometry are inter-related and is inseparable.” She says her work is a play between optical consciousness and unconsciousness, mystical and magical, cultural and natural.

The exhibition is on display at Annexe Building, India International Centre, Lodhi Road till March 31 . Contact: 24619431