Experimenter presents The Line is Time, Radhika Khimji’s third solo with the gallery, that brings together a new and introspective body of painting and installation.
Khimji draws from an array of mediums and a layered technique of mark-making to reimagine geographies and abstractions within the environment. She approaches time as a subjective experience, measured by our internal time-consciousness, to think of temporality and fleeting moments that recognise an intuitive emotion as opposed to a reactive action. Her works fundamentally challenge the perception of time and respond to interior circadian rhythms.
Informed by the physicality and materiality of the making process, Khimji’s practice navigates a collaged way of working, referencing perpetual displacements of the transitory body moving across a fragmented space. Geometry and its deconstruction emerges in the surface of her images — where body and landscape remain closely embedded in a liminal space, materialising through an interplay of absence and presence. The lines where dots converge create a tactile portal through which time is mapped across a layered narrative of space and temporal registers.
Khimji alludes to a coexistence of two simultaneous timelines, where memories and linear time can be disentangled from their logical sequence. Navigating and escaping identification, the works reveal a visceral journey of ‘making’, by compressing many tempos, speeds, and durations. The surface of the works record the juxtaposition of body and spatial relationships, by weaving in shifts and ruptures through interventions with images.
Khimji’s works navigate what it means to see and be seen, where the metaphors of the personal and collective subvert boundaries of identification of forms, fluidity, displacement and abstraction.
Radhika Khimji (b. 1979) lives and works between Muscat, Oman and London, United Kingdom.
