Anushree Rabadia’s practice is material in a different register. She has developed a distinctive technique of making tactile compositions with mount board, gridded to make dynamic compositions that become sites of textural play and meaning making. Her works appear geometric at once but are sensitive reflections of the world around her.
Her inclination towards relief work was intuitive, shaped in part by observing her father Jayanti Rabadia, who works across multiple mediums including reliefs in bronze and ceramics. She found her material language through mount board, investigating how forms moved with light, how textures emerge from the surface, and how depth can be created within the pictorial plane without creating an illusion. “The relief aspect is very important—it allows the work to exist between painting and object. The shadows it creates are soft, playful and constantly shifting, depending on the light and the viewer’s position. This subtle play of light and shadow becomes a language in itself. It is sensitive and slow, much like the emotions I try to hold in the work,” explains Anushree.
Her recent works extend this formal language into more conceptual and emotional territory. While they maintain the geometric logic, there is an undertow of feeling affected by the tensions around the globe. The result is works that are calculated, vulnerable and felt.