Soldier In The Rain

Songs from a seamstress

Artist Paula Sengupta’s new series is a remarkable mix of history, art and craftsmanship, says Sumati Mehrishi

A soldier’s shoe, red, majestic and monumental. Its laces trim, neat, tidy and flowing. Beside it sits a round piece of ammunition, dwarfed, happy, used, with twigs sprouting out of it like it was left to live in the rain along with the soldier’s shoe. This is not a painting but embroidery.

Timelines and recollections do not flutter across hurriedly, they crawl in artist Paula Sengupta’s recent series of works, The Gallery of Anxiety , a collection of serigraphy and aquatint on paper and etching on acrylic on display at Gallery Espace. The regional representation in Paula’s exhibition Lv Pony , a sequel to her series River of Blood , inches over a remarkable mix of thought and theory in a theatrical depiction of images of war through the running stitch in kantha, the embroidery popular in West Bengal and Bangladesh and its impression in serigraph.

She says, “I have done a lot of embroidery during my childhood. We were expected to know everything our mother and grandmother knew — the typical middle class thing. Though during my days at Santiniketan I was painting a lot, I realised that expressing myself through embroidery comes easily to me. Besides, the running stitch in kantha lends itself to a very pictorial expression.”

The regional representation in her work is distinct, firm and impervious to trends, tastes and frivolities. In her work, you feel the presence of music, movement, theatre and a strong narrative. There is a song from the seamstress in every work — a song on her rootedness, a striking juxtaposition of the masculine voracity of war and ammunition and the feminine mindfulness of the circumstances, their effects and portrayal.

She says, “Serigraph is a great media to work with. Focussing on textile has always been very important for me. But to transform it to a medium on this level and attach it to human identity, to work keeping in mind movements in art history, which I have shown great inclination for requires a lot of effort. I have taught at NIFT. Being trained at Santiniketan helped but teaching at NIFT helped me make a lot of changes in my work. Though I was always interested in textiles, garments and embroidery, I could look at everything differently.

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