Between Growth and Decay IX, 2025

Anjali Parekh’s imagemaking practice is rooted in close observation of nature’s overlooked and often misunderstood spaces—the plants that push through concrete cracks, roots creeping along the edges of walls, or stretches of wild growth that gradually reclaim neglected land. These moments, frequently dismissed as disorderly or unwanted, become for her a quiet testament to resilience and survival. Where society reads intrusion, Parekh sees insistence; where others perceive neglect, she finds unfiltered expressions of life’s persistence. Her works reframe these sites not as imperfections but as subtle reminders of how nature thrives when left outside the bounds of human control. They are as much about what we overlook as they are about what continues, insistently, to exist.

This attention to resilience finds its visual counterpart in the processes she chooses—viscosity and collograph imagemaking. Both techniques carry an inherent unpredictability and a tactile materiality that mirror the qualities of wild growth. Parekh embraces their capacity for variation, allowing the press itself to yield outcomes that are never entirely foreseen, each image bearing its own textures and tonal shifts. The layered surfaces echo the depth of natural environments, while the element of chance opens pathways for new interpretations. Colour, too, is approached intuitively; each composition takes on its own palette, reflecting the distinct mood or rhythm of the growth it evokes. In her work, the technical and thematic converge: the stubborn resilience of weeds, cracks, and overgrowth finds resonance in processes that resist fixity, opening up a space where beauty emerges not through order but through survival.

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