Anu Ramdas | Lucem Interiorem

OTP Copenhagen is proud to present Lucem Interiorem, the debut solo exhibition with the gallery by Copenhagen-based artist and clairvoyant Anu Ramdas (b. 1980, Sønderborg; DK). Featuring selected works on paper produced between 2018 and 2021, Lucem Interiorem charts the development of the artist’s esoteric drawing practice. Beginning with examples of the smaller-scale compositions that birthed Ramdas’ abstract geometric style, the exhibition also includes several of the radiant biomorphic images that formed the basis of the artist’s first significant Danish museum show at the Museet for Religiøs Kunst (Lemvig; DK) in 2022.

Having struggled for many years to find an appropriate visual language to express the awareness of and communicative impulse she felt towards external spiritual presences, Ramdas in-fact first began drawing as a way to depict immediate bodily sensation. During periods of meditation, the artist would begin to feel parts of her body manifesting themselves in terms of specific forms and colours. Picking up a pencil and paper immediately after these sessions, Ramdas began to depict abstract self-portraits that combined a personal and anatomical self-awareness with a universal otherworldly aesthetic. Many viewers report feeling a kind of correspondence between the forms in these works and parts of their own bodies and the artist talks about these images as mirrors — ones that encourage a recognition of how co-incidental bodily appearance is, but also that contemplate and explore the concrete ways in which form and colour effect and determine people’s experience of the world.