Experimenter – Hindustan Road, Kolkata presents the exhibition The Line is Time, Radhika Khimji’s second solo in Kolkata and third solo at the gallery, bringing together a new and introspective body of paintings, sculpture, and installation. Khimji draws from an array of mediums and a layered technique of mark-making to reimagine geographies and abstract aspects of the environment. She approaches time as a subjective experience measured by a consciousness that recognises the tensions in temporality and fleeting moments, such as those as represented by the photographic image. Her works challenge the perception of time itself while her visual language searches for a place between architecture and gesture. Informed by the physicality and materiality of the making process, Khimji’s practice navigates a collaged way of working, and references perpetual displacements of the transitory body moving across a fragmented space. Geometry and its deconstruction emerges in the surface of her images. The lines where dots converge create a tactile portal through which time is mapped across layered narratives of space. Khimji alludes to a coexistence of two simultaneous timelines, where memories and linear time can be disentangled from their logical sequence.
Find more about the show here.