Soumya Netrabile: Holding Current
Andrew l. SHEA
October 1, 2024
Soumya Netrabile: "Holding Current" at Rachel Uffner
September 6–October 19
In Soumya Netrabile’s Shooting Star (2024), a woman stands alone at the front of an open, nocturnal landscape. The scene’s dark cypresses, its sloping fields, and the rustic homestead up the hill in the background suggest Tuscany, yet the entire painting is bathed in an ominous, dense, unfamiliar red tone. A woman in the foreground looks toward us expectantly. Her dress flutters in the breeze, and its cerulean fabric is the painting’s only departure from its palette of blood red and green-black. In the field behind her, another woman rushes back towards the horizon, dragging along a small child. Above, a bright white meteor arcs over the sky.
