Flowering Self, 2022. Photo: Courtesy of David Zwirner.
In Mahesh Baliga’s paintings, his inner and outer worlds collide. As the title of his solo exhibition at David Zwirner in London suggests, every canvas is ‘Drawn to Remember.’ Details of daily life spent in lockdown in Vadodara merge with those of his childhood, spent in the lush green of Mangalore’s Mudbidri in the Western Ghats. The mind is never only in the present, but constantly coloured by the past and visions of the future. “My paintings remind me why I remember something while looking at something else,” he explains.
