Silent Meander

VHC is pleased to present ‘Silent Meander’, a solo exhibition by Aparajita Jain Mahajan. Inspired from the artist’s everyday experiences, the exhibition unfolds as an intimate account of memories, thoughts, emotions, and movements across time, that invite the viewer for a tactile introspection on the many aspects of one’s own life, and being.

Through repetitive mark-making, Jain crafts mixed-media works that kindle reflections at once with the distinct yet overlapping delineations between our personhood, and what’s external to the inner self. Working organically through her intuitions that are paced alongside important personal life junctures, each piece lends into an affective archive comprised of compositions replete with meticulous stitching, and delicate drawing on handmade paper. Expanding from flat surfaces into three-dimensional forms elsewhere, the works often incorporate fragmented remains from the artist’s late mother’s textile practice, where notions of care and labour are reintroduced in a female intergenerational legacy.

At the same time, Jain’s interested in not only where, or what our selves have been through, but also forces that continue to guide us forward. Having transcended beyond the phenomenological into the great abstract, the works, then, are also attempts at negotiations between the now familiar past, and the unknown which is yet to occur in the future. These are reflective observations made in individual quietude, that erase singularities towards interweaving moments, conversations, objects, and places between parallel lives, only but disclosing as glimpses in these intermittent recesses, glitches, pauses, and intersections.

In offering a map-like journey, where a memory of a memory invokes the flow of time, revealing how experiences shift, evolve, and are rediscovered in new contexts in life, Aparajita Jain’s exhibition ‘Silent Meander’ is a personal meditation on the transient esse of human life.