Parallel Communes

Temsüyanger Longkumer is an artist from northeast India who has been based in London for many decades. His practice deals with the concepts of history, memory, spirituality and ecology in relation to his Naga roots. The connection between culture and nature courses through his work, and he is keenly attuned to the decline of sensuality towards the environment and the lack of spiritual connection to nature today. 'Parallel Communes' is a series of terracotta sculptures. Here, the artist conceives the human body as a microcosm of events in the universe by creating earthenware that takes an abstract shape, evoking human organs, flora or fauna.