Using gouache and dry pastels on paper and wood, Raina works in sequences which follow a narrative, linear in the way it reads but elastic in the way that it enables us to comprehend and examine - "I've been working with the idea of stretching time. It's like seeing something in slow motion or looking at one thing and stretching that time, being able to go backwards and forwards and doing it at a very, very slow pace. I think that has been very...
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Using gouache and dry pastels on paper and wood, Raina works in sequences which follow a narrative, linear in the way it reads but elastic in the way that it enables us to comprehend and examine - "I've been working with the idea of stretching time. It's like seeing something in slow motion or looking at one thing and stretching that time, being able to go backwards and forwards and doing it at a very, very slow pace. I think that has been very crucial to a lot of the work that I have been doing recently."
The objects and images, repeated with an almost mesmeric intensity, are taken from the repertoire of the domestic, though the essential equation arises out of their necessary persistence in our lives. Though simple in themselves, a transmutation occurs as the eye progresses from frame to frame, as does the potential for interpretation; moving "from an absence to a presence - from a hole to a mountain, a navel to a breast until it becomes a spinning top". Certain symbols emerge, obvious in some ways but potent in that they form the basis of collective memory; myths of creation and origin unfolding with movement in time or with the action being performed.
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Born
1961
New Delhi
Education
1986-88 Master of Fine Arts, Faculty of Fine Arts, Maharaja Sayajirao University of Baroda, Vadodara, Gujarat
1981-85 Bachelor of Fine Arts, Studied at The College of Arts, New Delhi
Exhibitions
Selected Solo Exhibitions
2007 'Constructing the Memory of a...
Selected Solo Exhibitions
2007 'Constructing the Memory of a Room', Paintings and Installations from 2001-07, Bodhi Art, New Delhi
1999 Sakshi Gallery, Mumbai
1996 Sakshi Gallery, Mumbai
1996 Faculty of Fine Arts, Maharaja Sayajirao University of Baroda, Vadodara, Gujarat
1992 Gallery 7, Mumbai
Selected Group Exhibitions
2014 'Sacred / Scared', Latitude 28 Gallery, New Delhi
2011-12 'Back to School: Baroda 1979-89', Tao Art Gallery, Mumbai
2011 'Melange', The Harrington Street Arts Centre, Kolkata
2011 'Back to School: Baroda 1979-89', Palette Art Gallery, New Delhi
2010 'Indian (Sub)Way', Vadehra Art Gallery, New Delhi; Grosvenor Vadehra, London
2010 'Snow', The Palette Art Gallery, New Delhi in collaboration with Tao Art Gallery, Mumbai
2009 'Zip Files', Tao Art Gallery, Mumbai
2009 'Relative Visa', Bodhi Space, Mumbai
2008 'Material/Im-mmaterial', Gallery Collection, Bodhi Art, Gurgaon
2008 'Mapping Memories – 2, Painted Travelogues of Bali and Burma, Gallery Threshold, New Delhi
2005 'Angkor: The Silent Centuries', Gallery Threshold, New Delhi
Participations
2013 'Aesthetic Bind: Subject of Death', Celebrating 50 Years of Contemporary Art, Chemould Prescott Road, Mumbai
2012 ‘To Let the World In: Narrative and Beyond in Contemporary Indian Art’, as part of Art Chennai, Edition II at Lalit Kala Regional Centre, Chennai
2009 'Lo Real Maravilloso: Marvelous Reality', 20 Years Celebration of Gallery Espace at Lalit Kala Akademi, New Delhi
Honours and Awards
2002 Residency at Taipei Artists Village, Taiwan
2002 Residency at Taipei Artists Village, Taiwan
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