Chennai, India
Deepa Raghavan is a Chennai-based figurative painter working in watercolour and egg tempera. Her practice draws on the visual traditions of South India to create contemporary figurative works of extraordinary precision and luminosity.
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The third in a series of works reimagining the Nataraja iconography through a feminist lens. The deity's gesture is retained; the gender is not.
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A single mudra isolated against a ground of burnished gold leaf. The abhaya — the gesture of protection — here belongs to a contemporary woman.
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A Bharatanatyam dancer in repose, between performances. The painting questions the perpetual-performance demanded of women in traditional art forms.
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A fragment of a larger Kalamkari narrative, isolated and reframed as contemporary fine art. The original narrative context is deliberately obscured.
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Working directly with the conventions of Tanjore painting — the flat decorative ground, the jewelled ornament, the frontal gaze — and subjecting each to scrutiny.
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