Nisha Aggarwal.
Inquiring into the historical Salt march of 1930
and the near extinct Azrakh traditions, artist and
textile designer Shelly Jyoti weaves a fabric using
socio-economic and cultural threads of Gandhian
philosophies in her installation works, reviews

The solo show of Shelly Jyoti’s new works titled ‘Salt: The Great March’
: Re-contextualizing Azrakh Traditions in Contemporary Art and Craft’
was a thought-provoking, visual and aesthetical experience. The show
was on view from 28th September to 20th October, 2013 at Indira Gandhi
National Centre for the Arts (IGNCA), New Delhi. Shelly is an Indiabased
textile designer, a literature graduate and a visual artist by choice.
She investigates and revisits the areas of nationalism, history, gender,
textile and visual arts by presenting her art works in a socio-economic
and cultural context of India. The solo includes a set of four installations,
25 Azrakh prints on khadi cloth taking 12 different Azrakh design
references, multimedia spoken poetry followed by a slide presentation,
which includes her last two and half years consistent efforts