Enigma

Enigma

Enigma

Subba Ghosh

Enigma

year

1993

size

19.2 x 16.5 in. / 48.8 x 41.9 cm.

medium

Etching and aquatint on paper

Subba Ghosh creates here a personal moment of his protagonist who appears to be playing ‘cat’s cradle’, a string game that many of us indulged in to pass time. Ghosh’s protagonist’s calm demeanour is misleading, especially when one looks at the elements that are placed in the confined place. Though everything has a homely feel, we find photographs of the protagonist’s companion, one of them suggesting he’s a soldier. We find other discomforting elements, particularly of a woman lying in a foetal position. 

published references

Sengupta, Paula, The Printed Picture: Four Centuries of Indian Printmaking, Volume I and II (New Delhi: DAG, 2012), p. 166, p. 251

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