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Pooja
 Iranna is known for her elegant architectural structures which she has been exploring in many mediums and formats since her early years of career. For someone who grew up in the metropolitan city of Delhi, witnessing the escalating expansion of buildings and never ending constructions, they inevitably became her subject of inquiry. Pooja’s take on this is quite unique and intriguing. Her cityscapes are completely devoid of human figures. But the human presence is felt in every inch of the surface.
  
Pooja’s very early works were mostly watercolours that depicted architectural spaces. She also started experimenting with altering the surface of the paper support by way of marking and scratching that exposed the underside of the paper. These experiments show how Pooja was exploring the tactile qualities of the material she worked with. Her stint with digital technology of taking pictures and collaging them and experimenting with software like Photoshop led to a newer body of works that included her post-production interventions of reworking on the prints with pigments and other mediums. This further got expanded to working with three-dimensional format. Her first solo exhibition ‘Metaphorical Mathematics’ with The Guild in 2003-04, featured an installation titled ‘Standing Strong’, which was a series of pictures printed and folded up to make boxes that were a metaphor for the urban developments that started in a big way. From there on Pooja’s trajectory of exploring the three-dimensional art making and installation has expanded into multiple ways and directions.


 

     

 

 

 
 
 
 
 
 
 

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