mithu sen

Drawing Room
Recent Works
14 - 31 January, 2006

Born in 1971, Mithu Sen is one of the young vibrant faces on the Indian Contemporary Scene.
Her art practice steers between creating installations and paintings. She is a product of Kala Bhavan in Shantiniketan, West Bengal. Her exhibition titled, Drawing Room, is comprised of mixed media drawings/paintings and collage works. Her large body of work made during 2005 is being shared and shown simultaneously at the British Council in New Delhi (presented by Nature Morte) and at Gallery Chemould in Mumbai.

Nancy Adajania in her essay for the catalogue writes:
"Through her recent suite of 80 large as well as intimate-scale drawings, titled The Drawing Room, Sen creates an interior where sexual fantasies are unabashedly caressed until they grow into the gigantic whorls of a rose; and where taboos and false pretences are gently trapped between the blades of a scissor and snipped.

There is no linear narrative or definite meaning in these drawings. Sen works incrementally, one motif leading to another through the play of free association. Similarly, the spatial composition is made up of individual pictorial elements and stray elements are placed strategically outside of the main structure in a corner of the picture frame. The scale of the pictorial elements is also distorted to alternatively provoke comedy or menace…."