The work of a painter is often like a passport which helps in moving from one country to another - and the other is always the country of the painter to which he draws us back again and again.

Sujata Bajaj's latest compositions may be seen as pages of this passport: what we find in it are imprints, fragmented writings, unknotted cords. But this time each page appears more dense. The mystery at work is nearer, more compelling, on the verge of being revealed.

The signs of the journey open up a vision that is more assertive, its stages are more unusual.

We come from distant planets, in out-of-the way vehicles and we have halted at lonely stations. And at every stop Sujata has left her imprint.

Let us draw back. Let us see the passport in its entirety. That is when the artist offers us at a single glance all the worlds together in one, her own.

Jean Claude Carrière
(translated ftom French)

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