sabr | صبر
Solo Show curated by Srinivas Aditya Mopidevi
Presented by Sakshi Gallery, Mumbai
March 6 – April 5, 2025

Sakshi Gallery is pleased to present sabr | صبر, a solo exhibition of recent works by Delhi-based artist Chetnaa. This exhibition marks the artist’s first solo presentation in our gallery. Curated by Srinivas Aditya Mopidevi, sabr | صبر brings together a body of work that includes the artist’s experiments with form, scale, and materiality rooted in the language of minimalism.

Chetnaa’s relationship with geometry and minimalism developed during her time at art school. Her daily travels through Delhi are absorbed into her subconscious as lines and shapes. The intersections and entanglements of the urban grids became sites of her artistic investigation, with maps and windows becoming a recurrence in her work.

In preparing for this exhibition, the artist reflected on geometry and minimalism as her modes of expression. “When I think of it today, the emphasis on structure and form came into my work during a crucial time when I was going through personal turmoil. My art became a safe space to process whatever I was going through. The grid I often find myself returning to gave me a sense of clarity and led me to a different relationship with time.”

Echoing these personal trajectories, sabr | صبر brings together large-scale drawings, sculptures, textile works, and the artist’s signature grids. The drawings in this exhibition flow onto paper, reflect light, are woven in silk, and cast on metal. They invite the viewers to respond to forms beyond their meaning, guiding them to a sensorium between balance and ethereality, patience, and geometry.