Talwar Gallery, New Delhi is pleased to announce Present Continuous, an exhibition of recent works by Ranjani Shettar. Ephemeral yet distinct, between shadows and form, Shettar’s works permeate elusiveness and a refusal to be contained by simple categorization. Her materials yield to unfamiliar realizations, as in Stretch in which wood seems to have been molded like clay, while on the main level Scent of a Sound traverses the gallery space like an unruly fragrance encompassing it like a lingering melody. The organic forms constructed with steel and muslin float in mid-air confronting the viewer as they enter, daring them to step inside and imbibe. Further, in Aureole – a multi-piece cast bronze silhouette of a threshold sweeps across space gracefully defying materiality and weight while drawing from a millennium-old tradition. Lagoon, laden with lush, rich, and dense forms created from lacquered wood immersed in depths of blue, is indulgent and inviting.