Vidha Saumya
Born In Patna, 31
Since her 2011 debut at Mumbai’s Galerie Mirchandani + Steinruecke, this Lahore-trained artist has used black, red and blue Cello Gripper ballpoint pens on Chinese rice paper to illustrate a world of excess through tight glimpses of clustered bodies in the midst of erotic revelry. Her forthcoming, limited-edition book, Gunpowder, featuring 30 new black-and-white drawings, pursues similar individuals in psychedelic domestic settings, decaying in the absence of readily available pleasure. And red and blue pens.
Hemali Bhuta
Born In Mumbai, 36
As interior designer, artist, and recently curator, what unites Hemali Bhuta’s disciplines is the exploration of the overlooked. At the Yorkshire Sculpture Park in 2012, Bhuta installed bronze sculptures modelled on roots amid the grass. They were made in such a way that viewers could miss them, or not, depending on their individual attention to detail.
Her manipulation of materials like agarbattis and soap introduces both play and deception: A slab of alum, for example, titled Folded Line, resembles concrete – perhaps because it’s the latter we’re more familiar with than the former. And as we wrestle with our assumptions, Bhuta keeps making the ordinary extraordinary.
Asim Waqif
Born In Hyderabad, 37
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