Despite living in a city that teems with stimulants, both visual and aural, Gattani’s works offer a sense of quiet. Her earthy, minimalist paintings—devoid of discernible motifs—absorb viewers with their incredible depth, provoking an introspective experience. Her palette is inspired by spaces, materials, and the environment she occupies, and she applies numerous layers of paint to her surfaces, privileging textural and material explorations over specific forms or familiar structures. Working at fixed hours on a daily basis, Gattani’s practice relies on intensely focused, unremitting, and ritualised labour. Encapsulating her approach, the artist has expressed, “Abstraction is in its deepest sense, based on realism, as in, reality – reality of the present moment, free from any thoughts, memory-conditioning… only that pure present moment existing. So painting is a ‘time-manifested’ process and I become only a means.” With a tremendous sense of concentration and obsession, Gattani pushes her mediums and materials to an extreme, as she relentlessly employs techniques of layering. Through her approach towards making, as well as the final manifestation of her works, she invites closer deliberations on the nature of attention, itself.


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Despite living in a city that teems with stimulants, both visual and aural, Gattani’s works offer a sense of quiet. Her minimalist paintings, devoid of recognizable motifs, draw viewers into their layered depths, provoking introspection. Inspired by her environment, she builds surfaces through countless layers of paint, privileging texture and material over form. Working with intense focus and ritualised discipline, Gattani’s process becomes a meditation on time, attention, and the present moment.