Worn, washed, exposed, dry, crushed and creased, to be washed and worn again. There is an intriguing play on the relationship between a chore and an evocation in the construct of displaying The Stories of Loss and Desire. The subtext of the wash in each story is carried by blots that blur definitions. Humour and allegory can almost be seen as analogies adopted by the artist for desire and loss, respectively. Whether it is a shadow exposing the intangibility of desire, or a personalised take on Sisyphus rolling a boulder up a mountain, what the drawings reflect is a healthy dose of irreverence for the enormity of loss and desire. The heart (and the idea of feeling) is reduced to an object of play, a piece of meat, an inflated balloon or even perhaps a clinical experiment to be preserved in a jar for posterity.
Malavika Rajnarayan
2014
Malavika Rajnarayan 