The Open Studio / Vatsal Tiwari
Vatsal Tiwari
Untitled
Hands hold on while the grass keeps growing
Rust, then olive, then the grey of wet stone, then the pink of an inside wrist.
Hands find other hands and do not let go.
A knee becomes a hill. A shoulder folds like cloth.
Red flecks sit on skin like dust after a long road.
At the bottom of one sheet grass pushes up under the knuckles.
Nobody looks down. It grows anyway.
The work
Vatsal Tiwari works in Delhi and comes from the College of Art New Delhi. Untitled is four panels of mixed media on paper. In each one hands and limbs press together until the bodies are hard to tell apart. Tiwari uses see-through colour, soft edges and layered surfaces. One panel is rust red with dark spots. Two are olive and grey green. One is pale pink. In the grey green panel grass grows at the base. For Tiwari grass is stepped on but keeps growing.
In the artist’s words
“Grass has become a recurring metaphor. Often overlooked, stepped upon, crushed and disturbed, it continues to grow quietly. For me, grass carries memory like the body. Through translucent hues, softened contours and layered surfaces, I allow figures to emerge, overlap, disappear and transform. The body becomes a vessel of memory, emotion, history and cultural imprint.”
- Theme
- Body, memory and survival
- Material
- Mixed media on paper
- Size
- 152 × 76 cm
- Year
- 2026
- Edition
- 1 of 1
- Framed
- No
- About the artist
- College of Art New Delhi
- From
- Delhi
- Code
- RC-374
