When it comes to work with fiber, artists usually choose cotton, wool, or silk. The Indian artist Mrinaline Mukherjee, who died in 2015, reached for rope—hemp rope drenched in strong color, the vegetable dyes indigo, madder, and saffron. Mukherjee wielded and wove the rope into huge temple totems, figures clothed in rolls, openings, swells, and symmetries unabashedly and imperiously genital. Her sculptures tapped into India’s pantheon of spirits and gods, and she herself was at the center of a group of Indian artists who shaped modernism in India during the last 100 years. That circle includes Mukherjee’s parents as well as K. G. Subramanyan, Jagdish Swaminathan, Nilima Sheikh, and Gulam Mohammed Sheikh. This exhibition in London explores their paintings, ceramics, collages, drawings, and sculptures. —Laura Jacobs