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Manisha Gera Baswani

Manisha Gera Baswani

Manisha Gera Baswani (B. 1967) is a visual artist creating cultural landscapes of connections across Asian traditions, weaving expressions that comprise painting, photography, sculpture and poetic writing.

Perforated paper drawings have predominated Baswani’s recent artistic output, growing out of a personal encounter with pain and disease. What began, some years ago, as depictions of organs – the human heart, brain, and spinal cord –took on, over time, a life of its own, as both medium and mode of expression, to become a fully formed visual language that Baswani deploys with painterly precision and expressive freedom, adding minute effects with pen or delicate brush to create intricate forms and textures that draw on the drama of light and dark, of white and black. Recently, Baswani has turned to textile as an organic extension of the pin drawings, reworking the visual vocabulary in the new medium of mulmul (or soft linen), embroidered in the chikankari style.

Baswani is also the curator and creator of the legacy photographic project ‘Artist through the Lens’, which intimately documents studios of artists and denizens of the arts community across the Indian subcontinent over the last two decades. A selection of the works from the project was displayed recently at Whitechapel Gallery, London, as part of the exhibition, ‘A Century of the Artist’s Studio: 1920-2020’.

‘Postcards from Home’, an aligned sister series, is an historic documentation of 47 artists from India and Pakistan, with shared history and lineages torn apart by the 1947 Partition. It is also a homage to Baswani’s parents’ memories of the ‘home’ they left behind as they moved to India. The series is currently on display at a year-long exhibition at the Ashmolean Museum, Oxford University.

Baswani has also curated her teacher and legendary artist A Ramachandran’s retrospective solo exhibition ‘The Changing Mood of the Lotus Pond and Insignificant Incarnations’ (Vadehra Art Gallery, 2018). A dedicated arts educator and community builder, she has shared the genesis, spirit and evolution of her unique art practice across platforms such as TEDx (2019).

Baswani lives and works in Gurugram near New Delhi, with her husband and sons.

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