Shubhalakshmi Shukla is a writer and artist based in Mumbai. She graduated in Painting from Kalabhavan, Viswa bharati University, Santiniketan and obtained her M.A. in History of Art from the Faculty of Fine Arts, M.S. University, Baroda.
Her published works include the essays, Body and Transcendence: Two Women Artists, an essay on the paintings of Nasreen Mohamedi and Anita Dube in the book 'Towards New Art History: Studies in Indian Art, Essays presented in honour of Prof. Ratan Parimoo' edited by Shivaji K. Panikkar, Parul Dave Mukherji and Deeptha Achar, D.K. Printworld (P) Limited, New Delhi-110015.
Modes and Strategies of the Feminist interventions: Sculptural Encodings, in the book 20th Century Indian Sculpture the last two decades, edited by Shivaji K. Panikkar, Marg Publications, Mumbai.
She has been regularly contributing to the leading art magazines on contemporary Indian art and written several catalogue essays. Her catalogue essay for Navjot Altaf's installation Between Memory and History at the Sakshi Art gallery reflects her ongoing theoretical engagements.
It is important to address the content of these contemporary alternative expressions in Indian art in response to the so called spectacle of 21 century. The extensive use of new materials in large scale projects and politically edged art-works received acknowledgment outside India. Wide range of artists started participating in International art-galleries exhibits and art-fairs. The demand for local vs global critically addressed the rupture in discourses on Identity.
Several artists continue to confine to traditional medium like Painting and yet address the locale in paradox. The title Imagined locales is triggered from some such observations. Imagination addresses a larger paradigm addressing the psycho geographical as well as psychedelic understanding of the local' experienced. Contemporary Indian art till today often addresses the 'invisible' embarking of the psycho-social realm of the artist with the world.
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