Vadehra Art Gallery presents Women song – Vasundhara Tewari, A gaze upon a gaze, found upon looking into a mirror or writing a diary, has the heady effect of a self meeting itself, moving beyond the physical into the psychic contours of what the form holds within. Vasundhara Tewari Broota’s decades-long painting practice emblemizes such a deconstruction of the figurative tradition. Her feminist oeuvre reclaims the nude form of the female body as a site of potency and process, envisioning its rhythms, movements, vagaries and fluctuations through the unadulterated ebb and flow of life cycles. At the outset, Broota’s renderings featured parts of the female body disassociated from their structural whole in a gradual rebellion that feels both quiet and purposeful, wresting the woman out of, say, the ghoonghat or the burqa, or in other words, the social fabric meant to contain her. In time, Broota’s scale grew to represent the full figure in its unabashed glory and deviant boldness, but with an unexpected twist.
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