AUGUST 21 TO 28, 2018, NEW DELHI
The solo show of Bakula Nayak at the India International Centre in New Delhi was aptly titled Intimate Strangers. Nayak’s works are a very personal response to things that are found and collected by her, but probably held significant value and meaning for those they once belonged to. While searching for vintage papers, Nayak confesses that she often finds pages from personal diaries or random bills. ‘At first glance they look like innocuous pieces of paper, but they make my imagination go wild. They offer insights into people’s lives and I enjoy giving them a new life,’ she says. And so a ledger page from 1947, or a bread bill of a bakery in Paris from 1932, tucked away and preserved, come alive in Nayak’s re-imagination of the stories around them.
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