The Parade

It’s a deceptive world out there—people are not what they appear, they do not mean what they say, and their actions do not lead to consequences that they apparently should. Rekha Rodwittiya has been concerned with all the turbulences that arise due to the duplicitous nature of the human ecosystem right from the start of her career, and her keen and sensitive observation has only sharpened her expression over the decades. A joker with a fake, sinister smile in this work sums up the sentiment of the oeuvre where a horse and its female rider both converge in a fused, warped identity; a man lies at the bottom with a skeletal personality splitting out of his being, and three men with gouged-out eyes look blankly at the goings on.