'"The river does not just flow past us, but through us."
This gentle provocation serves as the foundation for At The Edge, The River Bends, a solo exhibition by Mahima Kapoor that brings together a significant body of work from the early 2020s to the present. The exhibition unfolds as a meditation on the process of becoming, where form resists fixity and movement becomes a quiet act of subversion.
Kapoor' s practice lingers in the paradoxes of the human experience: between control and release, structure and drift, the individual body and the expansive landscape. Here, the edge is not a limit, but a vital site of negotiation where vulnerability and intuition shape new contours of the self. As a new mother navigating shifting identities, Kapoor rejects categorization often imposed on artists. She does not merely move between painting, printmaking, and sculpture; she dissolves the boundaries between them, creating a vernacular that is entirely her own. While her works often evoke organic, natural forms, they are not mere imitations of nature. Instead, they are abstract translations of her inner landscape, a mapping of what she observes, and feels. Her process mirrors the river itself: a force that carves its own path, makes amends with the land it touches, and occasionally breaks free.
Deeply impacted by the world around her, Kapoor's work stands as a defiance against the capping of identity. It is a reflection on how we limit ourselves and how society perceives us, addressing the narrow roles often placed upon women. At The Edge, The River Bends is ultimately a reminder of our own capacity for transformation. Kapoor invites us to step into this current, suggesting that existence lies not in rigidity, but in the strength to flow, to adapt, and to reappear in new forms.
