Biraaj Dodiya

Simultaneously straddling ideas of ruination and form, chaos and care, Biraaj Dodiya’s (b. 1993) work is rooted in metaphors within the subject of landscape, where a relentless construction, deconstruction and improvisation of materials leads to the final form. Dodiya’s work develops much like an excavation site with extended processes of layering, concealing forms and digging back into the surface. Ultimately, the work becomes a record of its own upended language. The surface of Dodiya’s painting is dense, layered and textured, created through a constant process of removal and reapplication of paint, much akin to landscape which could also be a charged space for erasure and the violence of time. For Dodiya there is no landscape without ruin, there is no body without failure and she remains interested in constructing this liminal space—the meeting point between the sublime image, and the inherent ruin in it while leaning into an ancient human need to create systems of support that resist collapse.