Nature Morte is pleased to present an exhibition of nine new paintings by the artist Zimbiri.

Zimbiri continues to employ traditional techniques in her new body of work. On view will be paintings, all rendered using the natural colours of Saa-tshen (pigmented earth) on Rhay-shing (hand-woven canvas). She revisits her familiar subject of the tiger, furthering transforming it into abstractions. The animal no longer submits to realism but is in fact in close relation to representations of tigers as found in the murals adorning the walls of Bhutanese temples.

Zimbiri contains the ferocious tigers, constricting and conforming their energies into box-like formations. She then
fragments, shatters, superimposes, warps, distorts and juxtaposes these magnificent beasts with their iconic stripes.
Zimbiri gives the creatures leeway to interact as they divulge into each other. Some canvases accommodate multiple
beasts spilling into one another while a few others are isolated, giving them a sense of hibernation. Some works
showcase the tigers as animated, demonstrative of a range of emotions from rage to desire, uneasiness to bliss.

Her technique is not wedded to the message. Zimbiri explains, “With every empty canvas I paint, I always try to figure out what exactly I want to portray in my art. And I have realised that this is the most difficult process. In simple words, my works are just the questions I pose to myself.”