Paint in Memory

INDIAN-AMERICAN ARTIST JOYA MUKERJEE LOGUE'S DEBUT SHOW IN INDIA AT DELHI'S VADEHRA ART GALLERY IS A MEDITATION ON A LIFE LIVED BETWEEN TWO CULTURES

- Arshia

Indian-American artist Joya Mukerjee Logue's paintings are as much about community, as they are about the memory of women nurturing these communities, painted in her gentle whites and creams. In her debut show in India, Those who walk before me, which is on at Delhi's Vadehra Art Gallery until September 12, Mukerjee Logue builds an archive of her dual lives and identitiesone rooted and lived in the US, the other featuring her father's ancestral home in Ambala.

"Growing up in America, I always looked forward to my visits to India-my home away from home," says the artist. The exhibitionMshowcases some of the exterior elements of Mukerjee Logue's ancestral home, Rajo Villa, that sits at the heart of the bazaar in Ambala, and the neighbouring lanes that branch out from it.