This publication reflects on Seema Kohli’s four-decade-long engagement with the arts. Through critical essays and interviews, each essay in the book seeks to trace the complexities and evolution of the artist’s journey. It establishes her need to experiment with form and story building, referencing her paintings, installations, performances, and written works. As an artist, Kohli employs memory, oral histories, and spiritual experiences in worlds where the mythical, contemporary, fantastical, and real-life overlap. The book compiles essays by eleven writers from diverse backgrounds, including Adwait Singh, Amruta Patil, Dipanjali Deka, Katie Lazarowicz, Charty Dugdale, Gauri Parimoo Krishnan, Seema Bawa, Vaishnavi Ramanathan, Sona Datta, and Lina Vincent—along with an introduction and an essay by Annapurna Garimella. The book organizes the artist’s work into four parts: The Body is her Studio, Our Myths Feed her Fantasies, Her Workshop is her Shrine, and In Continuum, this book is edited by Annapurna Garimella and Sindhura DM, with Anshika Varma as a consultant.
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