Joya Mukerjee Logue's enigmatic art has always engaged with such complex themes as memory, family, nostalgia, identity, a sense of belonging and home. But more recently, the Cincinnati-based artist found herself becoming fascinated by a new muse — her ancestors. In other words, the ties that bind us. The realization that many of her relatives, predecessors and their friends and loved ones had once lived and thrived in and around her ancestral home in Ambala in Haryana long before her birth inspired her to further explore this profound connection. Despite not knowing them personally, she feels an undeniable and unspeakable bond of blood and shared history with them, linking her inextricably back to her clan. Those who walk before me, Mukerjee Logue's first solo show in India — currently on view at the Vadehra Art Gallery in New Delhi — delves deeper into the notion of what she calls "a sense of continuity between generations." It is perhaps appropriate that she stumbled upon the show's title during her routine walk one fine morning around her family estate, Rajo Villa.
30 August 2024