Sternberg Press Penguin Random House
In this first critical volume and biography of the artist, author Skye Arundhati Thomas delves into Lajmi’s archives, papers, letters, and sketchbooks in pursuit of clues about the artist’s life. Thomas also reveals the critical role that psychoanalysis played in the evolution of Lajmi’s art. Studying Lajmi’s relationship with her dreams, Thomas describes how these sessions fuelled a practice of self-portraiture that formed the bedrock of the artist’s practice. Thomas finds that Lajmi’s preoccupations mirrored the political moment of the time, a freshly independent India was fashioning itself a new identity.
