The Dialogue With Substance - 1 Print

Shrutika Gosavi (b.1987, India) is an internationally multi-awarded artist living in Dubai, UAE since 2011. Her latest achievements are, her selection by the Sikka Art Festival Dubai Culture 19-2020 committee to participate with her series of artworks ‘The Leftover’ as well as awarded with ‘Rove Emerging Artist Prize 2020’ at World Art Dubai UAE. Shrutika’s art is intuitive as well inspired by the human body, nature, spirituality, identity and perception matters. Her observations and experiences of her surrounding environment contribute to the development of a series of works, where she processes the significance of the external world to the human behavior and body. Her art is mainly described as contemporary figurative, with expressionistic qualities, encoded with messages and storytelling, while in many of her artworks she uses symbolism, and surrealistic elements such as in her series ‘When I travel in Dreams’, communicating and expressing visually her thoughts and feelings. Human forms are the main element in Gosavi’s artworks, characterized by their exaggerated gestures and body parts, are mostly faceless: “The expression in my paintings comes from the gestures of the full body. And I always connect the theme with the general atmosphere. Hence for me, facial features are not that important.”