Untitled (Bride)

Bikash Bhattacharjee’s was a natural talent as a photorealist, capturing form, colours, light and texture with an acute fidelity to life but presented for a heightened sensory affect. Woven into this were distorted miens and expressions, capturing their raw, psychological distress or disquiet of his characters. The feral bride in this painting evokes our darkest fears of the ‘other’ as unknown, occupying a space between reality and the subconscious. The thrill of danger was a potent force in most of his paintings.