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SUMMARY:Usha dapur Kar: Fragments from my Other Life
DESCRIPTION:11 – 25 May | 11am – 6pm*\nThrough imagination, magical realism, and sporadic layered memory, Usha Kar presents ‘Fragments from my Other Life’ – a series of paintings exploring parallels, gains and losses of an international heritage, and the juxtaposition of a life lived and a life imagined, through the eyes of a child.\n‘Balancing precision with gestural flow, my work creates animistic, mythic spaces where beauty and unease coexist, and where questions of identity, belonging, resilience and justice extend beyond the human world. Darkness becomes a site of solace and strength, and my practice explores charged psychological terrains where presence is implied and absence becomes an emotional force, revealing fragile structures that shape human experience.’ Usha dapur Kar\nUsha creates paintings and mixed media installations to stimulate reflection and conversation about social and climate justice. She combines precisely painted elements with energetic flow and animism, linking the specific to the spiritual and universal. Now based in Oxford, in parallel with a career in international development, Usha began to develop her art practice in 2017, launching her first major exhibition, Ferocious Grace, in 2022.\nEntrance is free\n*On Thursdays, the exhibition will be open until 8pm; and on Sundays it will close at 5pm.\n
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LOCATION:St John's College, Oxford OX1 2JP
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