Nerda Khara

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Between the court and the living room

Three women resting on a patterned floor against a deep blue wall, in the Pahari miniature manner.

The courtly miniature has its gold and its wide margins. It was made to be held in the hand and read slowly, like a page.

The people I live among are painted the same way: my sisters, my neighbours, children on a floor watching someone leave the room. The method does not change, only who is allowed to be the subject.

That is the thread through the work: an old discipline, pointed at the present.

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