Experimenter presents The Line is Time, Radhika Khimji’s third solo with the gallery, that brings together a new and introspective body of painting and installation.

Khimji draws from an array of mediums and a layered technique of mark-making to reimagine geographies and abstractions within the environment. She approaches time as a subjective experience, measured by our internal time-consciousness, to think of temporality and fleeting moments that recognise an intuitive emotion as opposed to a reactive action. Her works fundamentally challenge the perception of time and respond to interior circadian rhythms.

Informed by the physicality and materiality of the making process, Khimji’s practice navigates a collaged way of working, referencing perpetual displacements of the transitory body moving across a fragmented space. Geometry and its deconstruction emerges in the surface of her images — where body and landscape remain closely embedded in a liminal space, materialising through an interplay of absence and presence. The lines where dots converge create a tactile portal through which time is mapped across a layered narrative of space and temporal registers.

Khimji alludes to a coexistence of two simultaneous timelines, where memories and linear time can be disentangled from their logical sequence. Navigating and escaping identification, the works reveal a visceral journey of ‘making’, by compressing many tempos, speeds, and durations. The surface of the works record the juxtaposition of body and spatial relationships, by weaving in shifts and ruptures through interventions with images.

Khimji’s works navigate what it means to see and be seen, where the metaphors of the personal and collective subvert boundaries of identification of forms, fluidity, displacement and abstraction.

Venue
Experimenter–Ballygunge Place | 45 Ballygunge Place, Kolkata 700 019

Artist
Radhika Khimji

Exhibition Dates
November 5, 2025 – January 3, 2026

Gallery Hours
Tuesday – Saturday | 10:30 – 18:30

Website
https://experimenter.in/

Instagram
https://www.instagram.com/experimenterkol/

Contact
admin@experimenter.in

About Artist

Radhika Khimji (b. 1979) lives and works between Muscat, Oman and London, UnitedKingdom.

Radhika Khimji studied at the Slade School of Fine Art, the Royal Academy of FineArts and holds an MA in Art History from University College London. She lives and works between Muscat, Oman and London, United Kingdom.

Select solo and group exhibitions includeCutting Into Space, Experimenter – Colaba, Mumbai (2023); the Oman National Pavilion, 59th International Art Exhibition of LaBiennale di Venezia (2022);Adorning Shadows, Experimenter – Ballygunge Place,Kolkata (2021); The Drawing Biennial, Drawing Room, London (2021);Rupture,Experimenter – Hindustan Road, Kolkata (2020);Shift, Galerie Krinzinger, Vienna (2019);Searching for Stars Amongst the Crescents, Experimenter – Ballygunge Place,Kolkata (2019);On the Cusp, Stal Gallery, Muscat (2018);Becoming Landscape, Krinzinger Projekte, Vienna (2017); 6th Marrakech Biennale, Not New Now, Marrakech (2016), among others.

About Gallery

Experimenter was co-founded by Prateek & Priyanka Raja in 2009 in Kolkata, India. With a multidisciplinary approach, the gallery is an incubator for an ambitious and challenging contemporary practice. The program represents some of the most critical contemporary artists worldwide. The program, rooted in dialogue and dissent, is considered to be a ‘pace-setter’ for its region, and extends from exhibition-making to knowledge creation, through regular talks, performances, workshops and through its much acclaimed, annual curatorial intensive – Experimenter Curators’ Hub. A second, more ambitious space was added in 2018, marking a deeper inquisition into the gallery’s realm of interest. Its third space Experimenter Colaba, established in 2022, marks the commitment of its discursive programming to Mumbai, a city that in turn represents the diverse pluralities of the region.

The gallery attempts to expand the scope of contemporary practice beyond the ambit of its expected role. In 2016, its artist-book publishing wing was launched followed by the Experimenter Learning Program in 2018 which enables learning in fields of contemporary and performing arts, curatorship, film, writing, language and social culture. In 2019, Experimenter Outpost, an iterative exhibitions program outside the physical gallery temporarily inhabiting disused, characterful spaces was formed. 2020 marked the beginning of Experimenter Labs, an inclusive, experimental and multi- dimensional online platform in addition to the onsite gallery programming.

(Text and images courtesy of Experimenter)