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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 ofcommentaries about the human body and social concerns related to aging, illness, and death. Exhibition: Fowler Museum at UCLA, Los Angeles, USA (19.04-06.09.2015)
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