Margins (details)

Sheela Gowda

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Title: Margins (details)
Creator: Sheela Gowda
About the Artist: Lending an apocalyptic dimension of abstraction to the character of a woman tied to home and hearth is Sheela Gowda, trained as a painter and practicing as a sculptor and an installation artist in Bangalore, India. Working with and utilizing a vast array of materials, Sheela reminds one of a householder woman consistently building and perennially unfinished structure. She translates the architecture of a woman’s dwelling into poetry by often incorporating elements like the process of intricate labour, human hair, common rituals and totems besides incense sticks and the traditional kum-kum paints. Two elements that’s arise from her body of work are minimalism and abstraction whilst maintaining the brutality and the violence in everything feminine. Her penchant to create large scale magnanimous installations from the finest of materials like human hair acts as a metaphor in itself. Sheela Gowda establishes herself as one of those women artists who have delved deeper into the nuances of the feminine form and brought out its violence to massive detail, so much so to the magnitude of abysmal abstraction, thus realizing its ultimate paradox.

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