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Sakshi Gupta, who is 29, is based in Delhi. A sensitive young sculptor, Sakshi’s approach involves the reconstitution of the materials she employs by helping them escape the associations they are branded with. Sakshi often composes her works from discarded scrap, re-engendering this ‘waste’ to compose works in which the material transcends it's mundane, often industrial origins. Despite the heavy materiality of her medium, her works successfully tie together propositions of fragility, inflexibility and ephemeral lightness. This hardened position of negotiating and intermixing polar opposites has evolved over a period of time. The spectacular ceiling-suspended sculpture she has made for this show appears to be an everyday electric fan in the process of moulting its skin that has been shrugged off to the corners of the room. The piece is particularly interesting for it’s zoomorphic engendering of a mundane object of domestic use. Though perfectly still, the sculpture manages successfully to suggest movement, organic energy and agency. Title: Some Beast |
