Untitled, hand painted with fuji photo color, by Seema Kohli on unique silver gelatin print at the open Esman exhibition. Photo Credit: Special Arrangement

Nostalgia should not always be painful. Russian novelist Vladimir Nabokov (1899–1977) said, “One always stays at home in someone’s past …” This is in the ongoing multi-media single exhibition of experienced artist Seema Kohli “Open Aasman” in the capital.

Talking about the project, she says, “I am making a difficult link artistic for a house that my father never returned.” The project is deeply individual, yet, the almanac of all the relatives is detected. “Various tasks connect Kohli with their past, ancestors and ancestral home to Dadan Khan (now in Jhelum district of Pakistan).

Artist Seema Kohli loses roses with his work. Photo Credit: Special Arrangement

The bridging of the past and the present is displayed in the silver gelatin print. Using images clicked by his father, KD Kohli, the artist has added a new perspective, which has provided a new perspective We do. His father’s Bara, passing through Shankar Road in New Rajendra Nagar, has been implicated in the arc of the Shiva temple of Pind Dadan Khan. Urdu poetry and heart figure on these prints make them attractive. Many original pictures are from Seema’s mother Uma, who was her father’s collection.

The works that depicce Kohli’s family from Pakistan to India are also attractive. A train shows, which was an important means of transport for refugees during partitions, as well as when it was being constructed with the image of the border studio, paired into the past with the present. The barbaric aspect of the division is painted subtle by axes and a shroud body. Equally riveting is the work of work that shows the passage of time, between two structures with images of his grandfather and his friends along the wall of his new Rajinder Nagar residence.

Untitled, hand painted with fuji photo color, by Seema Kohli on unique silver gelatin print at the open Esman exhibition. Photo Credit: Special Arrangement

Kohli’s family occupation highlights the practice of hikmat or Greek and Ayurveda therapy. A family lishes eight generations of doctors, ending with his grandfather, Hakim chosen Lal Kohli. Seema’s eyes at the top, looking at the names of her magnificent ancestors, reflect praise and amazement.

Establishment reproduces the appendix from one of his grandfather’s books – Makhjan-e-Hikmat – Along with the range of treatments offered by Greek and Ayurveda, it reflects the range of allopathy for various diseases including cholera, dysentery and influenza.

Untitled, hand painted with fuji photo color, by Seema Kohli on unique silver gelatin print at the open Esman exhibition. Photo Credit: Special Arrangement

A Charpoy (bed) is covered with a bedsheet that shows Belladonna herbs and a bullet making machine Dispensary12 Herbs used to prepare drugs that work with their scientific names and properties -properties with glass jars Murabas And gulkandAnd the physiological paintings of body parts such as the heart, liver and lungs, are taken into an era when this indigenous medical system was taking place.

Untitled, hand painted with fuji photo color, by Seema Kohli on unique silver gelatin print at the open Esman exhibition. Photo Credit: Special Arrangement

The essence of the show is alive in boundary roses (ink on canvas with acrylic colors and 24 carat gold and silver leaves). He has portrayed the blooming fields of Choa Sadan Shah, a city in the Punjab province of Pakistan, and the camels used by pilgrims are shown to visit pilgrims in Katas Raj from behind. Beyond these powerful Hindu Kush mountain range and birds climbing in the sky pointing to the futility of man -made boundaries.

Talking about the open sky, the artist describes it as the “Project of Memory of Memories”. She says, “I think the book Friend Pare Nu (Autobiography of KD Kohli) For my father and along with the open for me, which is based on my father’s autobiography. It was giving relief to my father’s memories. ,

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