Supernova

Lightening 

Collision

Having my roots in Chennai,the southernmost part of India, I have been always intrigued with dark-skinned female form with the long curly hair that adorn them. Supple ,sensuous and well- rounded with curly long tresses which to me speak of a feminism that indicate inner strength and vulnerability. The bulged belly with the umbilical cord is basically the emotion that we cling on to, words that we often refuse to forget. 

Do I Look Like I Care?, Year 2020,Size 36"/36",Acrylics on canvas 

 Feminism is the undercurrent of my work where equality is relative to the situation we find ourselves in. Do we really think our species to be free in the true sense? In India women are worshipped as Goddesses,ironically in a society that's patriarchal and hypocritical in its inequality towards them.

Reluctant Goddesses, year 2021, Oil on linen, size 13"/13" 

Conversations, spoken text, words, punctuations, opinions are exhibited through body language. Layer upon layer over a period of time, conversations make a mark on our psych and our ultimate relationship with the environment around us.

Dialogues, Year 2020, Acrylics on canvas, 40"/48" 

My paintings depict those fleeting moments of multiple emotions that we experience in layers and layers and the impact of human communication, degradation, and a plunder of a society that is controlled by large by words, tone and language.

Swirls And Comes Back, year 2021, Oil on linen,13"/13"

The fertile human imagery in my works speak of a feminism that displays inner strength and vulnerability. 

And Then I Jumped ,Year 2021, Oil on linen, 13"/13"

Tiny Inner voices is an abstract figurative painting done using mixed media and acrylics on canvas. Its about connect I feel with the ever changing imagery of the human skin and its similarity to Earth. The skin on ones body and the surface of the Earth react immediately to external forces. Wet mud in splashes of sienna, textures of erosions, fibres of decay, beaded patterns formed by organisms, rusting marks and fossils, and scorching terrain replicated by burn marks on umber skin calmed by the smoothness of indigo, such are the layers that frequently engulf my work. 

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Shalu Juneja