Radhika Khimji

Radhika Khimji (b. 1979) lives and works between Muscat, Oman and London, United Kingdom. She studied at the Slade School of Fine Art, the Royal Academy of Fine Arts, and holds an MA in Art History from University College London.

Select solo and group exhibitions include The Line is Time, Experimenter – Hindustan Road, Kolkata (2025–2026); Public Art Abu Dhabi Biennial (2024–2025); Cutting Into Space, Experimenter – Colaba, Mumbai (2023); A Slight Adjustment at Galerie Krinzinger, Vienna (2022), Oman National Pavilion, 59th International Art Exhibition of La Biennale di Venezia (2022); Conversations on Tomorrow, Sadie Coles HQ, London (2022), Adorning Shadows, Experimenter – Ballygunge Place, Kolkata (2021); The Drawing Biennial, Drawing Room, London (2021); On Site, Bikaner House, New Delhi (2021); Rupture, Experimenter – Hindustan Road, Kolkata (2020); Shift, Galerie Krinzinger, Vienna (2019); Searching for Stars Amongst the Crescents, Experimenter – Ballygunge Place, Kolkata (2019); On the Cusp, Stal Gallery, Muscat (2018); Becoming Landscape, Krinzinger Projekte, Vienna (2017); the 6th Marrakech Biennale, Not New Now, Marrakech (2016), among others.

About The Work

Courtesy of Experimenter, Kolkata

Take a look at this body, it can see what you can see is part of Radhika Khimji’s shifters series, this work foregrounds the body in space, frozen mid-movement and poised in a state of flux. It highlights the tension and dichotomy between stillness and movement, painting and sculpture, and public and private. The work is an inquiry into how a body, our bodies, living in space and with others, is at once subject to the voracity of the gaze and an object of reclamation—looking back as a way to insist on ownership and agency over our own space.

The Dangler, though it appears delicate, is resilient and brutal in its material form. For Khimji, the work has served as a metaphor of the labia, inviting a dialogue between intimacy, violence, structure, and abstraction. The work, made in aluminium and white acrylic paint, is a light porous structure in the form of a perforated screen that cuts through space. The aluminium edges retain a sharpness that belies the fragility of the form. It is made from an enlarged version of a small drawing on paper that Khimji created with a hole punch and folded over—each hole corresponding to the original holes and a repeated act of punching holes in a delicate piece of paper, thereby creating a self-reflexive pattern.