Kaee Contemporary is currently hosting an exhibit titled ‘When the Other Stares Back’. Curated by Adwait Singh, the showcase features artworks by four female artists from Kolkata — Jayashree Chakravarty, Radhika Agarwala, Sonia Mehra Chawla and Suhasini Kejriwal. (In frame: Suhasini Kejriwal’s Everyday Extraordinary, which examines the quotidian tableaus from Chitpur in north Kolkata and Chor Bazar in Central Mumbai)
For the exhibit (which will go on till April 30), each artist staged an encounter with non-human actants such as — plants, plankton or animals — that are left vulnerable at the hand of man. Ranging from melancholic to monstrous, these motifs are represented as warnings against landscapes to come. (In frame: Radhika Agarwala’s sculpture that attempts to capture inter-species struggles)
