Papia’s Baul singing and modernist Indian poetry demonstrate other talents and, as a spiritual leader, she revels in her ability to capture an audience in prayer as well as with singing, dancing and her acting talents, while engaging us all on multiple creative levels.
She is a Bohemian who has been living in Prague’s Bohemia, but also a Bohemian in spirit as are most who follow the Bengali Baul lifestyle and culture.
As a painter, Papia follows an Indian Modernist tradition of female painters from Amrita Sher-Gill onwards. Unlike Sher-Gill Papia doesn’t follow the same School of Paris figurative style, born of Gauguin that Sher-Gill followed in her imagery depicting suburban and rural India.
Instead, Papia weaves tantric abstracts which may incorporate her menstrual fluid and semen from intrigued donors. The addition of bodily fluids adds extra dimensions to her work, enabling audiences to relate to her presentations on a number of levels, Contemporary Art being but one.
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