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Confluence presents 25 paintings/collages created by Purvai Rai through the past year of the pandemic. For the 26-year-old artist, the last year marked a period of grief and anxiety; as the pandemic ripped through the city sparing none, her constant nightmare was – what if she carried the infection with her within the safety of her home where her parents lived? The works reflect upon the day-to-day life around her as much as the abstract encounters that haunt her, evoking the memories of tragedies she has witnessed through news reports and photographs.

Laden with cherry blossoms, their dense foliage etched against the sky, Iranna’s trees are the very image of nature’s beauty and bounty. But it is a beauty harnessed to a core of strangeness, to contemplation of the mystery at the core of life.