About the Exhibition
This exhibition by Kavita Issar Batra showcases a series of new paintings. It also includes an oversized canvas, “Ode to the Singapore Sidewalk” 2016.
Kavita’s artworks explore the idea of memory, of remembering and being remembered. Dead leaves, twigs, seedpods or flowers leave ‘marks’ on the surfaces they fall on. Usually after the rain the sun dries up the surfaces. The moisture trapped beneath these leaves causes them to leach colour and imprint themselves into the surface long after the actual leaf may have blown away or disintegrated. For Kavita, these imprints speak deeply of our human desire to remain even after our physical death, in people’s memories or through legacies we may leave to future generations.
Kavita’s artworks explore the idea of memory, of remembering and being remembered. Dead leaves, twigs, seedpods or flowers leave ‘marks’ on the surfaces they fall on. Usually after the rain the sun dries up the surfaces. The moisture trapped beneath these leaves causes them to leach colour and imprint themselves into the surface long after the actual leaf may have blown away or disintegrated. For Kavita, these imprints speak deeply of our human desire to remain even after our physical death, in people’s memories or through legacies we may leave to future generations.
Paintings, Mixed Media
Deluge,
91 cm x 122 cm, 2016 |
Threads of Raw Umber and Burnt Orange, 91 cm x 122 cm, 2016
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Of Bees and Things,
91 cm x 122 cm, 2016 |
All That Glisters Is Not Gold I, 61 cm x 152 cm, 2016
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All That Glisters Is Not Gold II, 61 cm x 152 cm, 2016
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Of Mountains and Mists I,
152 cm x 61 cm, 2016 (SOLD) |
Of Mountains and Mists II,
152 cm x 61 cm, 2016 (SOLD) |
Threads Still Holding On,
152 cm x 61 cm, 2016 |
Viridian and Burnt Threads,
152 cm x 61 cm, 2016 |
Ode to the Singapore Sidewalk, 160 cm x 500 cm, 2016