An echo of the past
New Indian ExpressIn the art of Dipali Bhattacharya, women hold centerstage. Her works concerns angst-ridden feminine tribulations: their role in familial and domestic spaces, and their fight for social justice and feminism appear in her tour de force Parallel Lives, held at Kalakriti art gallery in Hyderabad. Nostalgia is a common artistic trope: her visual vocabulary is drawn from her personal history and everyday life, such as family photographs, as well as Kolkata’s colonial past. Even though the colours in the paintings are subdued, giving the impression of viewing the city’s past through a sepia-tinted filter or watching in a looking glass, her pieces brim with life. Something is always going on in the city streets as multiple scenes unfold in a single time.
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