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At the 2007 Venice Biennale
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It is a rare artist who can convey, convincingly, the sense of being face to face with the source of being. Adi Da can clearly live in the depths without succumbing to their pressure, bringing back pearls of art to prove it.
Indeed, again and again Adi Da's photographs convey a sense of aesthetic as well as physical ecstasy. Virtually all of his images are masterpieces of abstraction - ecstatic visions of the female body that are simultaneously formal epiphanies.
Donald Kuspit
Author, Scholar and Art Critic
The artwork of Adi Da Samraj engages subjects exotic and mundane, beautiful and homely, elegant and rough. Through the often-manifold repetition of images arranged in patterns, Adi Da devises myriad visual mantras, as expansive in their rhythms as they are in their colors and contours?patterns that at first seem symmetric but subtly reveal their dissonances and metamorphoses. These apparent slippages are sources of revelation here, pathways in their very imperfection to the divine.
Peter Frank
Author and Art Critic
The image-art of Adi Da Samraj challenges at root levels the authenticity of ego-separateness, the assumed permanence of gross phenomena, and the finality of the fleshy organism's death, while transmitting what could simply be called the Real. This revelatory experience is necessarily what Adi Da describes as "a performance-assisted subjective process"; i.e., it is a uniquely transformative journey in which the "performance" of his art becomes, through participatory viewing, a direct and personal communication.
Bob Carroll
Author
