Even as legends go under the hammer for record-breaking digits, one of the more exciting aspects of the art world is the discovery of the new and emerging. Krupa Makhija is the artist Vogue has its eye on.
Recently awarded The Emerging Artist of the Year 2015 Award by Glenfiddich and Bestcollegeart; Makhija is the artist selected form India to participate in the Glenfiddich Artists in Residence Program that will be held in Scotland this year where she will be collaborating with a number of international artists. A jury of thirteen judges including Peter Nagy (Director, Nature Morte), V Sunil (Creative Director, Wieden & Kennedy), Sunil Sethi (President, Fashion Design Council of India) and Feroze Gujral (Art Collector)—have chosen her from 710 emerging artists who created over 2,600 artworks from across the country.
After completing her BFA and MFA from Faculty of Fine Arts, Baroda, Makhija is gradually making her presence felt within the art world—she has already won a range of awards including the Harmony Excellence Award in the 'Emerging Artist of the Year' category and The National Award for Painting from Lalit Kala Akademi.
Makhija's work is all about analysing and dealing with 'Cultural Amnesia'. From a family that migrated from Pakistan during the partition of 1947, she describes her work as being closely influenced by her identifying as being part of the first generation of her family born in post-partitioned India—"I grew up on a regular diet of stories of my family from the pre partition era. All I had was a memory of a memory. All these experiences are somehow transformed in my works through symbolic representations. I am concerned with how cultural destruction travels through generation to generation. And as a migrant artist, I deal with the complexity and conflicts of being an outsider and an insider."
From burnt canvases to found objects and architectural waste, her work is representative of destruction, nostalgia and is a constant looking back to understand the now.
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