‘Karvat’: Bhasha Chakrabarti uses quilt as a landscape for stories of the body
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‘Karvat’: Bhasha Chakrabarti uses quilt as a landscape for stories of the body

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Bhasha Chakrabarti’s images conceal and reveal at the same time. The Ajaibghar series is being shown for the first time at Experimenter Colaba as part of Chakrabarti’s exhibition, Karvat, which is her first solo in this Mumbai space. Textiles play a huge role in Chakrabarti’s practice, and the artist calls herself primarily a “quiltmaker". The quilt in Lihaaf, like in Chakrabarti’s practice over the years, becomes a cover for the bareness of bodies and a site of self-determination and pleasure," writes curator-writer Mario D’Souza in the essay accompanying the exhibition. “All these images also show the protagonist holding onto herself, another body, or an object — a fleshy grip that extends into a wanton desire," he writes.

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