Galerie Mirchandani + Steinruecke is delighted to open its space in Delhi with a solo exhibition by Aji V.N.
As we behold the seascapes, the calcined landscapes, and opaque figures that occasionally appear—we learn to see like a painter, finding the persistence of the world in conditions of dim visibility, within the gradients of matter. The vanishing point becomes a mediator between light and its dissolution, whether situated at the oceanic horizon or amidst the vertical frame of trees.
Reflexive to the vastness of these paintings is the furtive intensity of drawings that relay an inhabited moment with a sense of immediacy. Shifting between the unknowable and intimately held, there are small portraits of Aji’s daughter, often with her gaze turned elsewhere or presented in an oblique profile that retains the quality of immersion and inwardness of the natural world—at once with us and somewhere beyond.
Everness, drawing from a poem by Jorge Luis Borges, considers the qualities of the sensible world, which we hold within us partly as refracted forms, partly as memories.
Arushi Vats