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Experimenter presents The Line is Time, Radhika Khimji’s second solo in Kolkata and third solo at the gallery, bringing together a new and introspective body of paintings, sculpture, and installation.

Khimji draws from an array of mediums and a layered technique of mark-making to reimagine geographies and abstract aspects of the environment. She approaches time as a subjective experience measured by a consciousness that recognises the tensions in temporality and fleeting moments, such as those as represented by the photographic image. Her works challenge the perception of time itself while her visual language searches for a place between architecture and gesture.

Informed by the physicality and materiality of the making process, Khimji’s practice navigates a collaged way of working, and references perpetual displacements of the transitory body moving across a fragmented space. Geometry and its deconstruction emerges in the surface of her images. The lines where dots converge create a tactile portal through which time is mapped across layered narratives of space. Khimji alludes to a coexistence of two simultaneous timelines, where memories and linear time can be disentangled from their logical sequence.

Radhika Khimji (b. 1979) lives and works between Muscat, Oman and London, United Kingdom.

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About the Artist

In her sculptural and two-dimensional works, Radhika Khimji explores ideas relating to the body and the fluidity of identity, while paying attention to the bodily experience of being in space.

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About the Gallery

Experimenter was co-founded by Prateek & Priyanka Raja in 2009. With a multidisciplinary approach, the gallery is an incubator for an ambitious and challenging contemporary practice. The program represents some of the most critical contemporary artists worldwide. Considered to be a ‘pace-setter’ for its region, the program extends from exhibition-making, to knowledge creation, through regular talks, performances, workshops and most importantly, through it’s much acclaimed, annual curatorial intensive, Experimenter Curators’ Hub. In 2016, its artist-book publishing wing, Experimenter Books was launched. Experimenter’s program is rooted in dialogue and dissent. In 2018, the Experimenter Learning Program (ELP) was launched. ELP enables discussion, debate and learning in fields of contemporary and performing arts, curatorship, film, writing, language and social culture. In 2019, Experimenter Outpost an iterative exhibitions program outside the physical gallery where an extension of the program temporarily inhabits disused, characterful spaces was launched. In 2020, Experimenter Labs, an inclusive, experimental, online platform in addition to the onsite gallery programming was launched.

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