Roshan Chhabria
Chhabria works can be viewed as pages from a personal scrapbook - with drawings that spill into found and ready- made objects, sculptural and site-specific installations and then back into drawings. Each work is articulated and presented as a visual cluster rather than as a stand-alone object in a singular medium. This potpourri of material and form allows the artist to express observed and experienced dichotomies in social customs, traditions, norms and conditions with conscious naivety, irony and wit.
Humour and double meanings are inherent, but most often the light-hearted portrayal is laced with constant reservation and doubt. The use of text becomes a route to question the notion of the ‘good’; ‘misspellings’ and inconsistent conjugation position him right at the knife’s edge between two worlds.
![]() Object Study/Mechanical Drawing18" x 20" Water Color on Paper | ![]() Man Ray's Istree18" x 20" Water Color on paper | ![]() Stree is doing Istree16" x 22" Water Color on Paper |
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![]() American Ironman11" x 14" Water color on paper | ![]() Display of Manrays Istree | ![]() Found Print6" x 8" Found Image (print) |
![]() Drum Painter16" x 22" Gouache on Paper | ![]() Sharing money for alcohol16" x 22" Gouache on Paper | ![]() Man with microscope16" x 22" Gouache on Paper |
![]() Display of man with microscope | ![]() Anti asethetic object16" x 26" Water color and charcoal on paper | ![]() Black magic and Joan miro16" x 26" Water color and charcoal on paper |
![]() Black tar on white Sadhra16" x 24" Water color and charcoal on paper | ![]() Crow and Shradh16" x 26" Water color and charcoal on paper | ![]() marks of black shoe polish16" x 26" water color and charcoal on paper |
![]() lady ironing11" x 9" Pencil on paper | ![]() young boy sleeping till 11am10" x 9" water color on paper | ![]() Weight of a brain/mechanical drawing24" x 36" water color on pencil and paper 2013 |
![]() Couple in Walmart/ Technology series13" x 19" gouache on paper 2013 | ![]() TV advertisement of Japanese broomgouache on paper 13" x 19" 2013 |