One of the work of Bindi Rajagopal on the show at Durbar Hall Art Gallery. , Photo Credit: Special Arrangement
Shades of Mosie Green, the latest show of dominated artist Bindi Rajagopal, The Grounded Guardian: A Meditation on Mangrove Roots, On the Darber Hall Art Gallery. The latest show is an ode for mangroves that forms a green wall around the city where it meets backwater. Mangroves hold the earth, they prevent natural disasters and they nourish life like a mother, therefore, says point, they have used them as a recurring motif in work.
“This is my first single show in a long time. The first time the 2018 flood, then Kovid -19 … There was one thing after one thing. The show works in the show that I have worked in this period. These are not all, just something,” she says, laughs, laughing.
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Interveting mangrove routes range of some tasks, footprints that make backgrounds for a couple of its latest functions. The past affects the future as the present. Bindi feels that we have to be careful about what we leave behind for future generations.
Bindi said, “I participated in a workshop by a scientist on the role of mangrove in preserving ecology, and this led me to eager about him. The idea made myself underwent in my mind,” Bindhi explains why he chose mangrove.
Some tasks have a woman with cats, while others have life -like life forms, which all draw livelihood from each other. The paintings revealed a symbiotic relationship with nature and all its creatures, including mankind. “I am trying to say through my actions how our actions affect all creation, and how we should be responsible.”
Bindhi Rajagopal | Photo Credit: Special Arrangement
Bindi, an alumni of RLV College of Music and Fine Arts, has been practicing his craft for three decades. He held his first show in 1992, followed by one in 1998. Over the years, she has been a part of single and group shows in Kerala and abroad and has also cured the art show. She has been an art teacher at a school and later, a college -assistant professor of visual art in a college.
She uses visual metaphors and symbolism to get her point. For example, one of his paintings performed during Kovid -19 is actually three -a triptich, which shows three women on three different canvas. All three masks wear, and despite being together they cannot live in one place. Isolation is unnatural. “It’s not how we felt during the epidemic?
The artist is busy with the past, present and future, and how affects each other. The show works on bear testimony.
The show ended on April 30 at the Dar Hall Art Gallery.
Published – April 29, 2025 03:48 pm IST
