Out of the grim shadow of the First World War came the unbridled flourish of Surrealism. Over a hundred years later, Surrealist art is more significant than ever before. Delhi-based writer Radhika Iyengar writes about three surrealist artists from the Indian subcontinent: Bharti Kher, Arpita Singh and Rithika Merchant.
Read MoreHabiba Nowrose is a Dhaka-based photographer and researcher whose practice largely revolves around making staged portraits that explore the role of gender in shaping human relationships. Through the series Concealed (2013) and Life of Venus (2018), she attempts to address the notions of beauty, anonymity, and how women are often compelled to live up to societal and familial expectations. We speak with her about her image-making process, the challenges she has had to encounter through her practice and her experiments with the narrative form of traditional documentary photography.
Read MoreNibha Sikander's artistic practice involves using layer upon layer of intricately cut out, coloured card paper to create critters, birds and moths, in all their marbled and mottled glory. Her deconstructed renditions of real and imagined creatures have an almost lifelike quality to them and are an attempt to quietly engage with the larger question of preserving the wonders that nature offers. Nibha tells us about her current work, her detail-driven process, and her inspiration from the coastal town of Murud-Janjira in Maharashtra, where she lives.
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