‘For me, painting is a medium to express my inner self that transcends beyond the spiritual experience. While painting, ideas float from the subconscious, and I try to transform those ideas gently with the help of human and sometimes non-human forms. In these works, I had experimented with the human forms, re-arranging them in my own colours and compositions to provide a new sight of social life.’
Balwinder loves making human figures and playing with them to create forms that reflect her inner state of being. She rearranges it, breaks it to discover new shapes, and transforms it by merging it with space, thus creating rhythmic compositions where space vibrates and creates a sound of its own, which is felt visually. The human form struck the ground and the complex web (of mind and social limitations), desiring to move into the vastness of space, looking forward, awaiting, or craving for freedom. It’s an image of the human mind, yours and mine, searching for space, happiness, and liberty. Her recent works are a reflection of our social life and a mirror to our reality. The work expresses that there is an existence of the supreme power who controls us; at the same time, we see the man-made depiction of the gender bias that the society is dealing with.
