Offering – Chameli Ramachandran’s Solo Exhibition

Vadehra Art Gallery is pleased to present a solo exhibition of artworks by artist Chameli Ramachandran. Offering is a presentation of watercolour paintings taken from the artist’s oeuvre from around a decade ago. The show will open at our modern art gallery space on 27 August 2024 and will remain on view until 16 September 2024.

Chameli Ramachandran nurtures an immersive and entrancing relationship with nature, which strikes as an impulse to paint the skeletal and spiritual structures of different varieties of flowers, clusters of shrubbery, and the canopies of trees over and over again. In her nature studies, Chameli expands the symbolic vocabulary of these pastoral elements and their parts – through a long list of protagonists, including various kinds of lilies, chrysanthemums, carnations, orchids, hibiscus, silk cotton, and crotons among others – by viewing them as metaphors for life and death. She notes their sudden budding or blooming as a celebratory arrival of beauty, grace, and fragrance, only to wilt shortly thereafter. The physiological transformations in their existence seem to mimic our own cycle of life, which is entrenched in an inevitable decay yet remains guided by the promise of consistent regeneration. The dramatic personae she accords to these nature studies varies in curiosity and context, though they all retain a benign loveliness and connect a viewer – through meditation, ecstasy, and melancholy – to the view they hold. They strive for balance, presence, and luminescence, achieved through precise colour, chromatics, and texture, feeling personal and warm while also transcendental.

Date: 27 August – 16 September 2024
Time: 6–8 PM
Venue: Vadehra Art Gallery