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| Vivan Sundaram | POSTMORTEM (after Gagawaka) |
“In POSTMORTEM (after Gagawaka), the body is
‘stripped bare’ and placed upfront. The mannequins are dissected and show their
neutral attributes.
In close-up, the gaze meets the hand’s touch; you
see the hollow shell packed with body samples. Internal organs, displaced from
their functional locations, find new couplings in the dismembered figure.
The assemblage is playful, erotic, and violent. The
visual language of The Anatomy Lesson comes to us from almost four hundred
years ago. Here, inanimate figures are cut open on the operation table, a basic
ply board bench that is also a coffin, closet, frame and support.
A series of
postmortem procedures leads to post surrealist propositions. This exhibition
made up of sculptural installations continues from his earlier series of
installations of fashion garments made from discarded material (Gagawaka,
Making Strange in 2012).
Emanating out of this earlier series - the
mannequins - the bearers of these garments began to gain another form that gave
birth to this current series Postmortem (After Gagawaka).
