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Amita Makan


My Mother in Doodles

My Mother in Doodles 2010, oil and hand embroidered on canvas with silk threads, 46 x 45.7cm

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'EVANESCENCE': OIL PAINTINGS AND EMBROIDERED WORKS BY AMITA MAKAN

Amita Makan at KZNSA Gallery

'Evanescence' is an exhibition of large-scale portraits in oil and embroidery that Makan made of her mother who died last year after struggling with Alzheimer’s Disease. The hyperrealist portraits, reminiscent of Bollywood portraits, are, says the artist, an attempt to immortalize her mother in the face of her steady deterioration, a painstaking way of putting her mother back together.


11 May 2010 - 30 May 2010