Taking place across Victoria Miro’s London galleries, this international, cross-generational exhibition is a celebration of women artists who have shaped and transformed, and continue to influence and expand, the language and definition of abstract painting.

New Delhi-based artist Bharti Kher’s practice is characterised by processes of assembly, juxtaposition and transformation. Often employing found objects that bear the traces of their own histories, she raises metaphysical questions about our relationship to life’s quotidian objects and its daily rituals. To these, she brings a sense of quest, in which the self – as a moral, sexual and cultural being – might be open to interpretation, projection and, even, shape-shifting. Kher’s work is not without a sense of magic realism: indeed, she has described her practice as ‘the hunt for a chimera’.

Throughout her career, Kher has deployed the bindi as a motif to animate and transform objects and surfaces. Applying them in great number to painted board, in Neurons and Noise, 2015, she creates a dynamic ‘painting’ that, bestriding Eastern and Western aesthetics, points to a wider sense of interconnectedness – between the micro and macro, and spiritual and material worlds.

- Martin Cooper