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Dodiya is a conceptual artist of great versatility who has always experimented with genre and style in his work. Dodiya's carefully built images and installations are layered with symbol and metaphor, defying regular nomenclature. Their narratives are complex, simultaneously offering sweeping views of history, politics and art from Dodiya's global archives of information, and intimate autobiographical glimpses into his family life and creative... Dodiya is a conceptual artist of great versatility who has always experimented with genre and style in his work. Dodiya's carefully built images and installations are layered with symbol and metaphor, defying regular nomenclature. Their narratives are complex, simultaneously offering sweeping views of history, politics and art from Dodiya's global archives of information, and intimate autobiographical glimpses into his family life and creative process. The artist's constant drive to dislocate and invigorate his idiom, his command over various media, his deep collection of source material, and his visionary body of work have rendered him a pioneer amongst a generation of postmodern, global artists from India.

In the present lot, the artist draws from his archive of images to create a series of portraits of 'fallen' historical figures like Lenin on dried Ficus or Peepal tree leaves. Interspersing each set of portraits with similarly rendered images of flora and fauna, and concluding it with an abstract geometric panel and a red-tipped walking stick, Dodiya offers his viewers an enigmatic work that resists straightforward narratives. Like most of his other works, the present lot actively involves the viewer in its interpretation, resulting in several personal readings of its elements and their unique combination. As the title suggests, the installation recalls a walk, perhaps down memory lane, where discrete episodes like fallen leaves are chanced upon at random, one after the other.

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