Between Realms and Dreams, Along Reality’s Edge
A solo exhibition of acclaimed multidisciplinary artist, poet, and dreamer Seema Kohli (b. 1960), brings together key bodies of work in diverse media, encompassing works on paper, paintings, sculptures, installation, moving-image, etchings, textiles, photography, serigraphs and manifestations as prints that form Kohli’s rigorous practice.
Swaying between the vivid, emotional, and surreal flights of, and in-between alternate universes, the exhibition showcases a will to break free from self-contained planes of existence. Some of the oldest cultures have revealed parallel worlds that transpose conquests, where protagonists seek, explore or conquer.
As one goes through the exhibition, narratives around the golden womb — the self-pervading source from which the entire cosmos emerges — are unveiled. There is a birthing that takes place: not just of physicality but also of cerebral intuition and that of spirit.
The exhibition features serigraphs, including Almost Everything Notes on Hope (2021), and the 84-print series Ouroboros (2013), alongside Hiranyagarbha – Time, Space, Movement (2023) and works such as Altered Reality (2023) and Flight Within (2023).
Bihar Museum, Patna