Aman Nath, a close friend of Katt and who attended the preview, recalled that the two had planned a sculpture garden at one of his heritage properties. “We had decided to call it Latika Bagh, but she passed away before it could happen,” he said.Aman Nath, a close friend of Katt and who attended the preview, recalled that the two had planned a sculpture garden at one of his heritage properties. “We had decided to call it Latika Bagh, but she passed away before it could happen,” he said.Walk into the basement gallery of a Sarvodaya Enclave home, and you enter the final chapter of sculptor Latika Katt’s artistic journey. The exhibition at Gallery Threshold brings together Abandoned, the last series she created before her passing in January last year.
Curator of the exhibition Tunty Chauhan with Anya Singh
A suspended metallic work greets visitors at the entrance, while 13 bronze-and-stone sculptures from the series occupy the floor. On the walls are delicate graphite drawings that reveal the artist’s quieter, meditative side. “The idea was to represent her in totality. You see the softness of her graphite drawings and then the strength of the materials she worked with. Both sides of her personality are present here,” said curator Tunty Chauhan, who decided on doing an exhibition of the sculptor’s works about two years ago.
Latika Katt worked with a wide range of materials, including bronze, stone, and marble
Muzaffar and Meera Ali
‘Her works had architectural sensibility’A six-minute short film by filmmaker Muzaffar Ali, screened at the preview, featured Katt and her lifelong inspiration, Varanasi, where she was born. Remembering Katt, he said, “She was intensely passionate about her work. When I saw her sculpture based on the ghats of Varanasi, I felt they were designed to receive light in different ways. Her works weren’t just sculptural; they had an architectural sensibility. I wanted to film more of her while she was making sculptures, woh reh gaya.”
Latika often named nature and the city of Varanasi as her constant influences, with decay and duration being her lifelong subjects
Aman Nath, a close friend of Katt and who attended the preview, recalled that the two had planned a sculpture garden at one of his heritage properties. “We had decided to call it Latika Bagh, but she passed away before it could happen,” he said.
Aman Nath
Nilima Shaikh and Jatin Das
