State Of Mind by Shalu
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Medium: Acrylics, texture paste , rust on canvas
Dimensions: 48 x 86 cm
Year: 2022
Price: $400.00 USD
Status: available
State of Mind is an oil painting from the Body Language series that explores inner unrest and psychological flux. Through layered brushwork and charged gestures, the work captures emotional turmoil, cycles of overthinking, and erratic shifts in feeling. The body becomes a visual language for the mind—expressing tension, vulnerability, and the constant negotiation between control and chaos.
Why collect this work?
A tightly folded figure is pressed into a narrow vertical field, turning bodily compression into a legible image of mental pressure without fixing its cause.
- Shalu describes mark-making as a way to connect material, gesture and emotion. Here, that intention is supported by the figure’s uneasy fusion with the surrounding strokes, though the image retains ambiguity.
- In the photograph, the bowed head disappears behind an arm and a surge of pale, curling marks. Small circles, bars and stitch-like lines interrupt the body, suggesting thought as repeated notation rather than a single narrative event.
- The catalogue records acrylic, texture paste and rust on canvas. These materials permit raised strokes and oxidised traces, bringing controlled drawing into contact with marks that may develop less predictably.
- Within the artist’s Body Language series, this 2022 painting is especially useful for considering how posture can carry meaning when facial expression is withheld. Its tension rests between a recognisable body and an unstable field of signs.
About the Artist
Shalu
Shalu is an artist on Mondoir Studio. Artistic discipline: mixed-media. Based in Ahmedabad , India.
Nationality: Indian
My practice is multidisciplinary and rooted in mixed media.
