The work of Biraaj Dodiya is unsteady, mutable. Painting shifts to sculpture and back again, surfaces are raised and flattened on repeat, the layers and chronologies of paint hovering between the landscape and the abstract. This collapse; of the image, of the body, of the state and our animal need to resist it are central to Dodiya's practice. For this two-person exhibition curated by Linsey Young, Dodiya will present a body of new work alongside that of celebrated Mumbai based artist Gieve Patel (1940–2023), who was a friend and has been a figure of inspiration to the younger artist. A...
The work of Biraaj Dodiya is unsteady, mutable. Painting shifts to sculpture and back again, surfaces are raised and flattened on repeat, the layers and chronologies of paint hovering between the landscape and the abstract. This collapse; of the image, of the body, of the state and our animal need to resist it are central to Dodiya's practice. For this two-person exhibition curated by Linsey Young, Dodiya will present a body of new work alongside that of celebrated Mumbai based artist Gieve Patel (1940–2023), who was a friend and has been a figure of inspiration to the younger artist. A painter, poet, playwright and practicing doctor, Patel's painting practice traced the relationship between the urban and natural worlds and human life, exposing our vulnerability and resistance in the face of inequality.
