Sheela Gowda
Trip Start
Jun 16, 2007
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Trip End
Sep 23, 2007
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Kassel,
Germany
Thursday, August 16, 2007
The artist, who studied both in India and Europe, employs a process-orientated working method to combine modern aesthetics with local traditions. By using everyday materials such as cow dung or ashes, a metaphorical space opens in her installations that refers to handicrafts, female labour, rural life, natural resources and also to the historic and current experience of violence in India.
In And, a network of red ropes are strung across the room. A highly work-intensive process is associated with the ropes: Gowda double-threaded each of fifty needles with a piece of thread over two hundred meters long. The threads were glued together with red pigment to form a total of three ropes. And leads in different directions: to natural, social, personal, even painful experiences.
