About
Srimati Rashmi Trivedi
The quest for ultimate clarity, freedom, joy and beauty is the fundamental nature of each
individual. Here artists approach is feministic and focused on self-experiences as a common urban
women of contemporary India. Today we are living in the age of artificial intelligence, hybrid culture,
and globalization after post modernism. Being an educated and self-aware female, Srimati Rashmi
Trivedi expresses her experiences as the voice of middle class women in Indian socio-political
environment. The pursuit for freedom, growth, clarity and equality with the male gender is hidden in
her all works.
The semi urban woman’s life of India and its connection with artist’s self-identity, a personal
justification for the mediocre women and miseries of life is inherent as the self-expressions of the
minimal colors and lines on paper in the most of her works. The nature of watercolor and its
behavior on paper is sensitively in tune with the psyche of artist’s perception. Even in charcoal and
pestle works, this artist has command over the property of medium and its correlation with the
process of work. The identity and the typical socio political status of a middle class women in the
post independent environment of India is questioned in these self-expressions by artist
metaphorically against the so-called prestigious ethics of male dominant society. The approach is
feminist and centralized to gender differentiation norms and unwanted trends of communal & social
perceptions.
The melancholies of Life, chaos, desires, fears, self-identity crisis, religion, race and gender
discriminations are the natural concerns of this contemporary Indian artist in her works through
various experimentations. An attempt to cross the conventional boundaries of an artwork and
holistic approach for perusing the medium shows her deep engagement over her art practice.
-Ganesh Kushwah
(A Visual Practitioner, Blogger & Asst. Professor at Dr. BRA University, Agra)