Indian-Omani artist Radhika Khimji has been inspired by the human body and its various interpretations understood by diverse societies all over the world. Her first solo exhibition in the city, Artefacts from Below, is a series of installations including sculptural cut-out works, mixed media collages, and drawings.

The installation, Somewhat Upright by artist Radhika Khimji

She plays around with the idea of the human body by hollow it out and producing silhouettes or two-dimensional renderings instead. Highlighting the absence of flesh, Khimji uses colour to again underline emptiness or absence as well as an absorption or saturation. Thus, in the gallery’s words, Khimji’s works are called, “artefact from below the surface of the skin.”