83. SHEELA GOWDA: A SPACE BETWEEN PASSIVITY AND HURTING.

The Imaginary Institution of India, barbican.

'A very insidious sort of violence...the needles hang at the end almost passively but they have the potential for hurting.’

S.G.

Sheela Gowda, Untitled, 1997/2007. Thread, pigment, needles. Edition 1/3. Private Collection.

A scrawled looping of ropes - back and forth as a winding - circling of growing commitment - to fray and unravel - as the story of a life - and the many lives of a self lived - loosened and freed - and yet to return as a collective reminder - a shadow twin - to double in concentration.

Sheela Gowda, Untitled, 1997/2007. Thread, pigment, needles. Edition 1/3. Private Collection.

The Imaginary Institution of India, Art 1975-1998. Barbican - Until 5 January 2025.

Thank you Georgia Holmes.