Gauache, pastel and graphite on Aquarelle paper
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16 x 12 inches
Vasudha Kapadia (b.1995) has a Bachelors and Masters in Visual Arts from Maharaja Sayajirao University, Vadodara, India (2019). Her work employs slow processes of drawing to work through personal experiences and societal conditions; and the anxieties, observations and desires that emerge therefrom. Conceptually, she excavates and historicizes the invisibilised, decaying and discarded material; which are placed in a theatrical light, to draw attention to systems that govern memory and identity,
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Vasudha Kapadia (b.1995) has a Bachelors and Masters in Visual Arts from Maharaja Sayajirao University, Vadodara, India (2019). Her work employs slow processes of drawing to work through personal experiences and societal conditions; and the anxieties, observations and desires that emerge therefrom. Conceptually, she excavates and historicizes the invisibilised, decaying and discarded material; which are placed in a theatrical light, to draw attention to systems that govern memory and identity, and their oppression and control. In her ongoing works she intends to research into process based exercises, extending into walking, listening, cultivating, collecting; learning from intimate modes and sustained actions. These are observational, circumstantial and learnt from nature.
Drawing provides her the agility to move across time and conjure new ways to represent histories through processes of recollection, imitation, abstraction and drawing from memory. She continues to mine from social interactions and stories of friends, strangers and literature and goes back to the primitive origin of drawing as a language to understand and survive the world.
Her select group shows include her presentation at Kochi-Muziris Biennale (2022) curated by Shubhigi Rao, Fort Kochi, India; ‘Ephemerally Tangible’ curated by David Komary at Kunstraumarcade, Austria (2022); ‘The Flying Goat Show’, curated by Shyamli Singbal at The Flying Goat Cafe, Goa, India (2022); ‘The Viewing Room’, (Group) at The Drawing Center, Manhattan (2021); ‘Embark’, The Ark Gallery, Vadodara, India (2020); and ‘Thinking Matter’, Space Studios curated by Mario D’souza, Vadodara, India (2020). She is a recipient of India Foundation for the arts: Production Grant, 2024; Experimenter Generator Grant, 2022; AIR- AIR ARTIST IN RESIDENCE Niederösterreich, Austria, 2022 (September-October); “I show you my town” an online documentary drawing workshop with Matthias Beckmann (1.shantiroad with Goethe Institut), 2021; and Scholarship holder for the course (BAK Public Studies) ‘Art as Politics’, The Netherlands, 2021.
Vasudha Kapadia currently lives and works between Switzerland and India.
