Sumakshi Singh
Micro-interventions in/on the wall- from various shows
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Tiny in form, these meticulously constructed pieces magnanimously seem to expand upon closer inspection. These micro-interventions accompanied by miniscule scars and amplified flaws, convert the sterile surfaces into saturated membranes that resist efficiency in viewing, decoding and digesting as it becomes impossible to decide what is the art and what isn’t. Tension is created between the Cultural idea of the gallery space (as a neutral ground) and its Physical Reality as a space with specific qualities. Almost never located at eye level, they often reveal themselves first through peripheral vision. The viewing asks for a de-bracketing of visual attention like infants that are often to close or too far to place a frame on what they "should be" seeing. Objects and materials that have both a contractual realtionship with the space (sculpture/ paintings etc.) as well as intrinsic/ often found (cracks, holes, spider webs etc) realtionship. This enables viewers to often carry this way of looking out of the gallery to regard a weed in the sidewalk or other little fractures in a cultural movement toward control and efficiency. This starts to blur the boundaries between a space set aside for witnessing intellectual cultural activity/ and the outside world.
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