Mein Aur Mere Andar translates into ‘I and Inside Me’, which in Jai Zharotia’s case, is an exact pointer to a big body of his work. Throughout his career, his quest remained to explore the duality of existence, to process the reality which is not exactly what it appears. In this case, this quest makes the artist turn the subject inwards and look at what lies inside: is it different from what is portrayed outside? From what appears in the artwork, the veneer is different from the core. In this work, Zharotia emphasised the duality without passing judgment on the right or wrong of it.
published references
Karode, Roobina, ed., Frame Figure Field (New Delhi: DAG, 2008), pp. 62-63 Singh, Kishore, ed., Indian Abstracts: An Absence of Form (New Delhi: DAG, 2014), p. 178 Singh, Kishore, ed., Masterpieces of Indian Modern Art (New Delhi: DAG, 2016), pp. 188-191 Singh, Kishore, ed., Iconic Masterpieces of Indian Modern Art, Volume II (New Delhi: DAG, 2021), p. 440 Singh, Kishore, ed., Tantra: On The Edge, Inspirations and Experiments in Twentieth-Century Indian Art (New Delhi: DAG, 2022), p. 344
Satish Gujral
Untitled
1969
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