Into the abyss

I find myself somewhere between physical reality and a metaphysical one. It’s this frontier country between the tangible world and the intangible one, that is the realm of my artistic approach. Through my works, I constantly try to uncover my emotional and spiritual psyche. Art is both a representation and imitation of nature, reality and an artist’s experience in relation to their environment. The imitation does not indicate reproducing an external reality but an internal one. My work is a depiction of this internal reality that showcases my emotional responses as a result of contact with my immediate environment. One of the most important things for me as an artist is also the viewer-artist interaction every work involves. I have always believed art to be very subjective, I think that art is a journey that anyone who comes in contact with embarks upon, and I don’t want to tell them how to go about it. I am more interested in overturning the systems of thought and allowing the viewer to come to their conclusions.

- Harleen Kaur Sandhu

ABOUT ARTIST

Harleen Kaur is an artist living and practicing in her studio in New Delhi currently. Having done her BFA in painting from the College of Art, New Delhi. Through her work, she constantly tries to uncover her emotional and spiritual psyche.​

Emotions are the core focus of her art.
"A person who thinks all the time has nothing to think about but their thoughts. They tend to lose touch with reality and live in a world of their own..." And that is her world of painting which represents not external reality but an internal one.​

Through her works, Harleen is also interested in overturning the systems of thought in order to allow the viewer to rethink things so they can come to their own conclusions and experience art through their point of view and not through the eyes of the artist