Making Strange : Gagawaka + Postmortem by Vivan Sundaram
Making Strange : Gagawaka + Postmortem by Vivan Sundaram
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Author(s): Huyssen, Andreas
ISBN No.: 9780984755097
Pages: 200
Year: 201508
Format: Trade Paper
Price: $ 34.80
Dispatch delay: Dispatched between 7 to 15 days
Status: Available

This volume juxtaposes for the first time two striking bodies of work by Delhi-based and internationally recognized contemporary artist Vivan Sundaram. 'Gagawaka', the first project, consists of twenty-seven sculptural garments made from a bizarre assortment of recycled materials including foam cups, surgical masks, tire tubes, tampons, X-ray film, bandages, bras, foil pill wrappers, and drain pipes. These garments evoke a relationship both playful and subversive to fashion, haute couture, the runway, and the brand. The second project, 'Postmortem', is a collection of haunting sculptural objects composedof mannequins, tailor's dummies, wooden props, and models of human organs and bones. 'Postmortem' questions the spectacle of 'Gagawaka' with a wider set of commentaries about the human body and social concerns related to aging, illness, and death.


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