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The 30-something Ghoshal, who was on a visit to the Capital, spoke of her many avatars in London, where she is poet, actor, furniture designer and even steam-engine driver (she holds a licence). She has even participated at the Lambada Dance Congress in Barcelona, London and Rio. “And somewhere along the way, I slept on the pavements of Paris to understand the ways of sex workers and visited brothels in London,” said the artist who won the European Union of Fine Arts Award last year.
Her patent subject — the individuality of women — is expressed through mythology and explored through man-woman relationships and faceless figures in the Fantasy series and other works. While her canvases have aggressively erotic images, Ghoshal chastely says she is a firm believer in the traditional concept of love “of the Laila-Majnu sort”. Love, she says, is a dying emotion, killing with it, among other things, the institution of marriage. “My paintings are about modern life as it is,” she says. And if she leaves London occasionally to walk through the villages of India, it is to have a glimpse of a way of life as it should be.
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