Skin Speaks a Language Not its Own

Trained in Painting at England’s Newcastle Polytechnic, Bharti Kher practices in India with a plethora of mediums. She has worked with the readymade, abstract installations, image making of hybrid forms, and incorporated mythological references hinting upon magic realism. Her installations are often integrating space with the method of juxtaposition to create a larger than life effect. She achieves abstraction with her ‘Bindi’ work where she uses them in a large number to sometimes narrate a fluid imagery inspired by the sperm whale, or sometimes to depict a sedentariness of a white elephant.