R Varadarajan

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Can grief be turned into art?At Ashvita’s, Vessels of Vulnerability, an exhibition of works by the late artist R Varadarajan, seems to ask exactly that. Filled with bold colours, flashes of red and layered abstract forms, the works do not reveal themselves immediately. But the longer you look at them, the more they expound on the idea of memory, loss, and emotional turmoil.Built through abstraction and textured with paper stencils and old materials, his canvases transform deeply personal experiences into something personal, suggesting that human emotions are simply too complex to be captured through realistic images.

Untitled work by R Varadarajan

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