When Jeram Patel battled ill-health, his work reflected his suffering as well as his experiences in dealing with it. These works pulsate with a rhythm but reveal painful points—a helpless figure, seen in this Untitled work, is lying in pain as its energy is, literally, sucked out from the bulbous, black hurricane-like form. A religious site appears in the distance, while close to the figure appear what seem to be mushroom-like tumours that attack and weaken the body.
published references
Singh, Kishore, ed., A Visual History of Indian Modern Art, Volume VI: A Modern Vernacular (New Delhi: DAG, 2015), p. 1116 Singh, Kishore, ed., Group 1890: India’s Indigenous Modernism (New Delhi: DAG, 2016), p. 241
Jeram Patel
Untitled
Ink on paper
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