IN BLOOM

A journey through the five decades of artist Shipra Bhattacharya

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RETURNING to Delhi after a decade, Shipra Bhattacharya’s landmark solo exhibition 'In Bloom: A Journey through the Five Decades' of Shipra Bhattacharya offers a rare and resonant encounter with an artist committed to figuration foregrounding emotional depth, imaginative freedom, and moral clarity across five decades of practice.

From solitary terrace figures to works that bear witness to collective trauma, Kolkata-based Bhattacharya’s introspective gaze remains poetic and politically charged.

The exhibition traces the evolution of her signature figuration, from early works that explore the solitude of urban women to later pieces that confront collective trauma. Her iconic motif of the woman on the terrace recurs throughout, symbolizing imaginative freedom within the constraints of everyday reality. This introspective lens is a form of witnessing. Works like 'Taposhi', which responds to the Singur tragedy, and War, a meditation on global conflict, reveal the artist's fierce moral clarity and poetic resistance.