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Madhvi Parekh’s unique vocabulary is easily recognised by even an untrained eye, especially in the primitivist expression of her figures that she owns unequivocally. Parekh’s canvases often recall life in the Gujarat village where she grew up. In this recent work, boys and young men from a village are engrossed in playtime activity that involves dreaming of travels to far-off shores, denoted by a ship in the waters, the sun and the moon on the distant horizon. Like most of her other works, this canvas too is populated by various creatures existing in harmony with each other.