At Ashvita’s Chennai, the Body As Is explores the human form through SK Rajavelu’s drawings

For centuries, the pistillate signifier has captivated artists crossed generations — from Leonardo da Vinci’s Mona Lisa to Johannes Vermeer’s Girl with a Pearl Earring and Sandro Botticelli’s Birth of Venus. In India, too, this fascination endures, from Raja Ravi Varma to Amrita Sher-Gil, wherever pistillate portraiture has agelong remained cardinal to creator discourse.

At Ashvita’s successful Chennai , that dialog continues done the works of the precocious creator SK Rajavelu. Titled The Body As Is , the accumulation explores the quality signifier done precise, unbroken contours.