This curated collection of essays reflects on a four decade long practice of Seema Kohli’s relationship with the arts. Through critical essays and interviews, each piece in the book attempts to trace the complexities and evolution of the artist’s journey and establishes her need to play and experiment with form and story building, with references to her paintings, installations, performance and works in the written word.
As an artist, Kohli uses memory, oral histories and spiritual experiences in worlds where the mythical, contemporary, fantastical and real-life overlaps.
The book brings together essays by eleven art writers from diverse backgrounds such as Adwait Singh, Amruta Patil, Dipanjali Deka, Katie Lazarowicz, Charty Dugdale, Gauri Parimoo Krishnan, Seema Bawa, Vaishnavi Ramanathan, Sona Datta and Lina Vincent through their interpretations in four parts of the book: The Body is her Studio, Our Myths Feed her Fantasies, Her Workshop is her Shrine and In Continuum.
“The book places Kohli’s artistic practice at the centre of multiple exercises in intellection” as Garimella mentioned in her introduction The Artists is Everywhere: An Introduction to Art of Seema Kohli.
We are presented with a deep and layered understanding into the urgencies and thought processes of the artist’s journey for the very first time.
Restless Line in the Art of Seema Kohli was released at the Jaipur Literature Festival, India Art Fair and the Museum of Art and Photography.
