Anju Dodiya b. 1964
Death Robe | Aesthetic Bind: Subject of Death, 2013
Watercolour, charcoal and soft pastel on paper
30 x 22 in
76.2 x 55.9 cm
76.2 x 55.9 cm
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Anju Dodiya’s ‘diary’ pages offer a concentrated act of mourning (her own) death where each visage signals fateful stigmata. Mourning is also an act of healing the narcissistic wound, but...
Anju Dodiya’s ‘diary’ pages offer a concentrated act of mourning (her own) death where each visage signals fateful stigmata. Mourning is also an act of healing the narcissistic wound, but that healing is here annotated with ‘medical’ diagrams that will, with some irony, treat ‘to the end’ her eruptive selves ‒ always so vivaciously alive and stubbornly dead.