Mequitta Ahuja: Trois

Galerie Nathalie Obadia is very pleased to organize the first solo exhibition of Mequitta Ahuja in Europe.

The work of Mequitta Ahuja, American born in 1976, consists almost exclusively of self-portraits or colorful compositions that oscillate between landscape and abstraction. She deploys on canvas or paper large female figures with excessive hair evolving in a fantastic nature with hybrid and colorful forms.
Textures, colors and multiple ethnic identities are mixed on the canvas in connection with the artist's own mixed origins: Indian by her father and Afro-American by her mother. The artist speaks of "Automythography" to describe the context of her work, a term that combines both reality and autofiction, personal mythology and fantasized reality. Each self-portrait begins with a performance by the artist in front of the camera, after having carefully staged his pose and chosen his clothes.
Through his paintings, the microcosm of the self-portrait joins cosmogony and universality.