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Born in 1937 in Gujarat, Gulammohammed Sheikh is among India’s most celebrated post-modernists – an accomplished artist, poet and scholar. At the heart of Sheikh’s oeuvre is socially reactive narrative, growing out of a profound immersion in cultural histories, mythologies, artistic traditions and current events. Sheikh interweaves heritage with contemporary expression, voyaging between the personal and public, the past and present, and the near and distant to create saturated and visceral palimpsests that coalesce timelines, cultures, symbols and influences in their interpretation. His work nurtures an inherent curiosity about the world at large, to discover and decode it through motifs of knowledge and belief systems in the hopes of resolving the eternal philosophical conundrum of what constitutes reality.
