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Avinash Chandra arrived in London in 1956 and in the next decade, made his presence felt in the city’s art circles by winning important awards. Around the time, the female figure appeared in his work that would go on to transform him from a painter of landscapes to that of humanscapes. He reduced the female anatomy to shapes as though suspended in space—this large work presents an endless procession of such forms, fluid, tactile, sensual, as though one form is giving birth to another in a self-propelled forward movement. This could possibly be read as an evocation of loss of self through the body.