July 15th, 2026 — Biraaj Dodiya‘s (CRF 2022) solo exhibition Grid for a Disappearance opens July 16th at Experimenter – Ballygunge Place in Kolkata, India with a preview from 6-8 PM including a walkthrough with the artist and journalist Kabir Jhala at 7 PM.
This new body of work combines painted steel sculptures, photographs, and oil paintings on linen. Skye Arundhati Thomas in the exhibition essay writes, “When Biraaj Dodiya paints, she stretches the pigment like a piece of cloth, or gauze. As though painting is a technique of repair. She wraps and affixes, uses paint like it’s elastic, like a bandage. She does so over metal, wood, and canvas, in thin, controlled layers. In Grid for a Disappearance, her mending takes place over large steel frames. They are outsized and disquieting; they resemble bed headboards, or the armature of stretchers. But what’s meant to hold the body at rest does not neatly resolve into comfort. Each work is an assembly of overlapped layers. Photographs are precisely placed alongside canvas and wood, which are in turn placed over the steel frames. The works are haunting, perhaps even haunted. While bodies are figuratively absent, they are suggested. Like the bodies we carry in our arms, wheel down corridors, and lay behind curtains. Wounded bodies, fragile bodies, bodies overtaken by their own frailty”.
Learn more and plan your visit at experimenter.in.