“He is an established artist and yet Ladi does not overprice his work,” observes Vibhu Kapoor the host of the camp and owner of Gallery Beyond.

A scholarship winner of the Ecole Superieure des Beaux Arts residency in Paris, Ladi made a big comeback in 2008 with a solo show at Threshold Gallery, Delhi, and the art camp brings him back to Bombay—-a year after Tina Ambani’s art camp where a permanent sculpture made in marble was hewed out and stands at the Dhirubhai Ambani Learning Centre in Navi Mumbai.

“I have had my solo for the year, now I will take time building a new body of work. In the meantime I like group shows. It keeps one in touch with the art world but is not as stressful as a solo show,” says the laid back artist.

He may be laid-back in his outlook on life, but his art is in constant motion. Ladi’s work manifests a restless, lively intelligence that interrogates and subverts reality, as we know it. His art is cerebral and not mere decoration or a play with scale and monumentality,” says Sarmistha Maiti a Delhi based art critic.

His favourite motif is the frog with one leg, supported by a crutch—“He is a metaphor for the state of humanity—even though we are challenged by all kinds of issues, we still carry on our day-to-day existence.”