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Atul Dodiya Woman from Kabul 2001 acrylic, marble dust on fabric, in artist's frame 186.2 x 125.1 cm (73 1/4 x 49 1/4 in.) Signed and dated 'Atul Dodiya 2001' on the overlap. Further signed, titled and dated 'ATUL DODIYA "WOMAN FROM KABUL" - 2001' on the stretcher.
Provenance Christie's, Hong Kong, Asian Contemporary Art, 24 May 2008, Lot 181 Acquired from the above sale by the present owner Exhibited New Delhi, Vadehra Art Gallery, Real in Realism, October 2002 London, Saatchi Gallery, The Empire Strikes Back: Indian Art Today, 29 January - 8 May 2010 Lille, Tri Postal, La Route de La soie, Lille 3000, 20 October 2010- 16 January 2011 Literature Real in Realism, exh. cat., Vadehra Art Gallery, New Delhi, 2002 Y. Dalmia and S. Hashmi, Memory, Metaphor, Mutations: Contemporary Art of India and Pakistan, Oxford University Press, New Delhi, 2007, p 124 (illustrated) The Empire Strikes Back: Indian Art Today, published in 2009 by Jonathan Cape, p 30 La Route de La soie, Lille 3000, published by Tri Postal, 2010, p 38-39 History of the Saatchi Gallery, published by Booth-Clibborn Editions 2011, p 799 Catalogue Essay Woman from Kabul is a work about living in Afghanistan at the turn of the new millennium. The artist recalls a country rich in history and resources that has collapsed under the weight of war. A figure of an elderly woman, stripped of most of her black burka, squats over a very decorative backdrop of wall paper. Her body is revealed as skin and bones, representative of the oppression and squalor that has become endemic of the city. Dodiya’s work is a potent reminder of the plight of the refugee. Read More