The Open Studio / Narender
Narender
Mundit avtaar
No hair and no hiding at the centre of this dance
Bare heads shine like river stones in gold light.
Blue and black bodies bend, kneel and turn over.
An animal head grins. Another shows its teeth.
In the middle a man stands still and lifts two white flowers.
Pale roses rest at his feet on the dark ground.
No one here is hiding.
The work
Narender lives and works in Gurugram. He paints, makes sculpture and installations, takes photographs and performs. One subject runs through all of it: hair loss. He makes work about himself and about people who share the same experience. In Mundit avtaar every head is bare. A tall figure stands at the centre and holds up two white flowers. Other figures turn, kneel and hang upside down around him. The work asks how people can find their confidence again.
In the artist’s words
“I work in painting, sculpture, installation, photography and performance. Through my art I show myself and people whose experiences are like mine. My main subject is hair loss, its challenges and their solutions. I show how this problem affects me and people like me. In the end, my work looks at how we can find our confidence again.”
- Theme
- Hair loss and confidence
- Material
- Acrylic on canvas
- Size
- 91.44 × 182.88 cm
- Year
- 2026
- Edition
- "Many people, including myself, get anxious over gradual hair loss. But if we think about it, it is not scary at all. Dashavatara represents the ten incarnations of Lord Vishnu. Here, I have depicted all these avatars without hair on their heads. This was done because it symbolizes a rebirth. It rejects emotions like jealousy, power, and ego, and expresses a sense of equality. By removing the body's superficial adornments, an effort has been made to give them a new form. This conveys a message to society as well—that we should not judge anyone by their external appearance, but evaluate them by their inner character."
- Framed
- Yes
- About the artist
- College
- From
- Gurugram
- Code
- RC-3794
