Lot Essay
Describing Rina Banerjee's work as "dazzling, breathtaking and confounding" and "fresh, original and exhilarating", Clayton Press notes, "Reality and fantasy, history and mythology partner with each other. Her work is like a cartographic fiction, in which Banerjee schematizes and visualizes an imaginary world based on real world pliable fact. Banerjee is a rarity among artists, who can simultaneously enable and enrich meaning without being intentionally didactic or moralizing. Hers is a poetic activity that creates opportunities for viewers to awaken to alternative meanings in art." (C. Press, 'Rina Banerjee, 'Make Me A Summary Of The World' At Pennsylvania Academy Of The Fine Arts', 8 January 2019, Forbes website, accessed July 2019)