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Gods in Trees

by Smruthi Gargi Eswar
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Details

Size: 71.5 x 42 inches
Medium: Acrylic on Canvas
Year: 2024
Signature: Bottom Right

Description

Before the gods lived in the skies, they did in a pair of trees—in embrace—the tree of life and the tree of knowledge. One couldn’t tell which needed the other more. Where one tree began and the other ended. Was knowledge dependant on life or was it the other way around? And amidst this eternal question the gods battled the snakes and held their place amongst the branches of life and knowledge.

  • ABOUT Smruthi Gargi Eswar

    Smruthi Gargi Eswar is a painter, graphic artist and storyteller. She studied at the Baroda Faculty of Fine Arts and Chitrakala Parishath, Bangalore briefly. Her art studies started much earlier, while she was still a student at The Valley School KFI. From a fine arts education, Smruthi moved on to graphic design and photography almost immediately. Eventually she returned to the world of art, finding within it, an avenue to explore, address and express at a more personal level. Working with hidden and forgotten mythologies, she brings them to life with a highly unique and singular expression—one that is contemporary while still carrying within it a deep sense of time.
    With shows travelling to Berlin & Syke, Budapest, New York, Cochin, Delhi, Mumbai and Hyderabad, Smruthi works from her studio space—Studio Smu—in Bangalore, India. She has also enjoyed collaborating with designers, performance artists and other creative professionals. In 2014, she held a solo show in New Delhi, showcasing works from her “Sister Misfortune” series at acclaimed fashion designer Ritu Kumar’s flagship store. The hugely successful art series, for which Smruthi has been creating works for over a decade, has also been exhibited in Kochi, Bangalore, Mumbai and Hyderabad. Moving on to painting on canvas, she has launched her most recent series, “The Centre is Everywhere”, with Artisera in her home city, Bangalore.
    With her photography work published in India and the Philippines, and her performative story telling hosted by Ballhaus Ost in Berlin, Smruthi’s art has been engaged with and collected by art patrons around the world.

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