Jitish Kallat: Artist we love

Creativity is endless and fluid; it transcends across media. Many believe it is an in-born trait and in Jitish Kallat’s case, we can safely say it’s true. As a child, he would incessantly make drawings. Once at the age of five, he volunteered to make a biology sketch for his 13 year old sister. “It appeared that I could do a better drawing and this got my sister and family excited, giving a naive boost to my juvenile self-worth,” he says.Inspirations can come from anywhere – his works transverse various canvases, places and frames. In terms of inspirations, “a progressively eaten roti might appear like a moon or x-ray scans of food might invoke celestial bodies. In other instances a single figure becomes a carrier of numerous narratives, a head of a commuter could bear the weight of an entire city,” he shares.