06/06/2026
Trupti Patel’s 𝘓𝘰𝘰𝘬𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘢𝘵 𝘢 𝘮𝘢𝘯𝘨𝘰 𝘵𝘳𝘦𝘦 𝘪𝘯 𝘵𝘶𝘳𝘮𝘰𝘪𝘭 is on display at 𝘛𝘳𝘦𝘦𝘪𝘴𝘩, a group show presented by Project 88 at Frieze No. 9 Cork Street, London. The work was first shown at the Bombay Art’s Festival 1987 as part of 𝘛𝘩𝘦 𝘚𝘤𝘶𝘭𝘱𝘵𝘦𝘥 𝘐𝘮𝘢𝘨𝘦, in homage of Pilloo Pockhanawala.
‘...Drawing on memory and place, this work would seem to put memory in place as much as place in memory. For in her home’s garden, there once stood a mango tree, seasonally fruiting and lush. Once. What the tree was, becoming another over time, both things are true across the work’s boisterousness in the round. Old delight jostles with current injury.
..Topographically abstracting to an extreme, sulking and restive, this is a disobedient form. A slabbed, stacked, folded hunk is mercilessly thwacked and welted with a wooden baton, then further gouged. Only its conceptually deft scatter of small bunched fruit translates heft to bole, branchless and leafless.
..Hints of mauve deepen the tension. Only under such a fever can the core be imagined shifting. Overstory gone, the bole is dappled with afterglow, bits of sky it once let through, and ghostly orange gems of fruit.’
Excerpts from Prajna Desai’s text about the work
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Trupti Patel,
𝘓𝘰𝘰𝘬𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘢𝘵 𝘢 𝘮𝘢𝘯𝘨𝘰 𝘵𝘳𝘦𝘦 𝘪𝘯 𝘵𝘶𝘳𝘮𝘰𝘪𝘭,
terracotta, colour slips, acrylic sealant,
30 x 29 x 29.5 inches,
1987 (signed inside)
