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SharePune-based Dipalle Parmar explains her art, in movement. Ramya Sarma learns more
She is an artist who wants to communicate, but not in words. Dipalle Parmar has "always been performing whenever I show my paintings", as a way to "introduce the artist.
I would rather have people understand me and my paintings through my dance," she says. She explores questions like "Where does the audience end and the performer begin?"
In doing so, she also tries to find out, "How do audience and performer slip into one another?" And the "body movement broke parallels, taught me how to unlearn and redefine movement itself".
But in the spectacle, Parmar insists, "There is an intuitive connect, non-verbal." For the preview of her show this evening, she will perform for half an hour with ("for the first time") a flautist.
This time, she explains, her work "is very different: ink and body oil on cotton fibre
paper. The ink is that used on metal, cobbler ink, Chinese ink, Indian ink." Unusually, the works become craft, not just art, and the paintings are done on and lit from both back and front.
"There is lots of translucency. I am always inspired by nature -- this time, by the texture of a cave wall." Parmar has "been exploring cave structures" in her extensive travels through tribal areas, where she has "come across caves and stone paintings".
The exploration has taken eight years and "half the works have taken that long", she says frankly, especially since the "thick watercolour used takes a long time to cure on the paper, like resin on the bark of a tree".
Redefinition: Eyes can talk, Gallery Art and Soul, March 1 to 9
