Speaking About Herself

-By Our Correspondent

Art is but an attempt of copying life on canvas. It is our thoughts and feelings that are guided by our body and we continue to explore it.  With an attempt of exploring herself, Asmina Ranjit, an emerging artist, takes art as the best medium and has showed the onlookers what she looks like.

Asmina is now on the walls of Siddhartha Art Gallery, Babermahal Revisited, displaying herself on canvas. She says she has always been fascinated by human responses to the inevitability of seeing and being seen. To this she says, “My cultural/sexual identity is always within me under the skin and above the skin, like a tatoo, which can’t be separated from myself. It is flowing within me with my feelings and thoughts on matter where I am.”

All 24 art pieces of Asmina that are being exhibited from 17th February till tomorrow (Monday) seek ways to represent female experience and the female point of view. To Asmina, a BFA from the University of Tasmania, Australia, art is always a great tool of expression that not only represents one on the canvas but gives a sense of satisfaction of being seen.

Her art works are done on lithograph/mixed media, silk-screen, colograph, lithograph with gold and mixed media.

For the onlookers they are simple yet very complex. They speak of female body, feminism, and feminine thoughts. Her  medium is strong and audiences can not help but praise for her works.

Her sets of  5 (Cluster B) and 8 (Cluster C) pieces done on mixed media have already been sold for Rs. 64,000 and 36,000 respectively.

“I hope her other pieces are also going to be sold on the last day of the exhibition ‘cause many visitors have paid their interests in buying them,” says Sangita Thapa, coordinator of the exhibition.