Overview
The human skin is our portal to the world outside and our sheet of protection against it as well. It is not an innocent category rather it is coded with years of colonial history and entrenched within the beauty myth. Empires and industries have been built on the pyramid of skin culture that begins with white skin at the top and ends with dark skin at the bottom of the pyramid.
The artists reference several aspects of skin, from the personal, erotic and playful to its larger socio-political connotations. It examines the deep-rooted practice of skin differentiation and addresses the fragile yet resilient nature of human sensibilities and other sentient beings.
Works
Achia Anzi, Sur-face, II, 2019
Variable SizeBaptist Coelho, Attempts to contain, 2015
Variable SizeDroop Gourds, 2015
Variable SizeThe Skin Remembers, 2015
Variable SizeConjoined life separately, 2017
20 x 3 x 1.5 inchesTerrain 1, 2019
11 x 8 inchesTerrain 2, 2019
11 x 8 inchesOriginal Shadow, 2019
11 x 10 inchesUntitled I (From the series Lines in the Sand), 2015
24 x 24 inchesUntitled II (From the series Lines in the Sand), 2015
24 x 24 inchesUntitled III (From the series Lines in the Sand), 2015
24 x 24 inchesStitched Skin, 2019
36 x 60 inchesSecond Skin II, 2018
58 x 35 x 19 inches
Venue
Threshold Art Gallery
C221, Sarvodaya Enclave, New Delhi, 110017