INDIA

Splittings and Re-couplings (Propositions for the tactile), 2022.

Series of 50 soft sculptures, variable dimensions.

Love, Labor, Loss (Some Metaphors for Blood and Honey), 2022.

Velvet fabric, polyester filler, iron armature, variable dimensions.

Splittings and Re-couplings brings together fragments of forms and images from across a range of cultures and categorisations: botanical / zoological repertoires, verbal and mathematical languages in calligraphic or pictographic traditions, ancient and moder agrarian and maritime traditions of knots and equipment, as well as architectural elements, tools and other prosthetics from craft traditions of sewing, weaving and hand carving. From cross-tempo-ral accumulations, the works monumentalize a moment in the present where we can still witness the saturations and tensions of culture with nature; the heterogeneities and robustness of seasons and places, rich aromas and flavours of roses and mushrooms, together with our maniacal desires to harness, possess; our homogenising tendencies to order and other. By foregrounding soft sculptural formations and the coarseness of the handmade, the works attempt to re orient the body's relationality with the world of languages. Mixing and merging disparate signs, the works attempt a retake on the ancient logographs and forgotten forms of writing, amalgamated into an ASMR mode of communication. The fragments propose notes on disabling categorisations - to enable metaphors towards the tactile, the sensual as possible modes of communication.