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Border Unseen 2014

Eli and Edythe Broad Art Museum, Michigan, USA

A visceral sculpture made of false teeth and dental polymer –spanning 84 feet extending from the ceiling to the gallery floor, cutting across the gallery’s geometric interior designed by Zaha Hadid.

I created a fluid line of false teeth and dental polymer to manifest a monumental hanging visceral sculpture that spanned eighty-four feet, extending from the ceiling to the gallery floor. Drawing an organic and irregular line through the prism-shaped complex geometries of the museum’s over powering Zaha Hadid-designed building, the work simultaneously evokes the human spine and an industrial beam, exposing the subtleties of power.

It represents a grotesque idea of an abstract body which compliments and complicates the concrete geometric structure. While referencing art historical dialogues surrounding materiality and minimalism, the sculpture is primed to elicit strong reactions from viewers. This teeth sculpture recalls my other works in similar materiality that elude to the boundary space of the body to elements associated with domesticity. Here, the teeth are not only the guardians of the body’s insides, but also the sanctuary of home.

projects

2023
mOTHERTONGUE
iWITNESS
“I am from there. I am from here”
mOTHER I SPELL YOU WRONG

2022
Until you 206

2021
Be Beyond Being
Until You..

2020
Uncatharsis
BERKELEY FOR SALE !!
QR
Unlockdown

2019
UnMansplaining
Lunch is cancelled
How to be a SUCKcessful Artist
100 (un)silent ways

2018
UnMYthU: UnKIND(s) Alternatives

2017
Unlynching
Sounding Drawing
Unline
Unhome in City IF Angels
We Unfinish each other
I Replace You
Embodied Language
Return Gifts: For Sale

2016
(Left Untold)
Aphasia
Kenopsia
Mis(s)Guide

2015
Tongue that won't stop wounding
Unwor(l)dly
Nonversation

2014
Border Unseen
Shop Lifting
I have only one language; it is not mine
Poems Declined
A ° V O I D

2013
I Am a Poet
Deafening Silence
Same River Twice
Artist: Unknown
Cannibal Lullaby

2012
I am not me
Devoid
In House Adoption
Twinkle Twinkle

2011
MOU (Museum of Unbelongings)
Once upon a sari
Ahh Taj !!
For(e)play
In Transit
No thing

2010
graffiti
Black Candy (Iforgotmypenisathome)
Unwanted

2009
Abstract Cabinet
Dropping Gold, Dropping Gold
Me two

2008
Nothing lost in translation
I dig,I look down

2007
Non spinal
Freemithu 2007-ongoing
Half Full
Kamdhenu
Indubala and her Unbelongings

2006
I chew, I bite, The Unknown
Icarus
All that's solid melts into air
It's good to be a queen
Letters on the beach
Drawing Room
Ephemeral Affair
Being Anastacia

2005
Spiritual materialistic

2004
No star, No land, No word, No Commitment
Breathing
Burnt by the sun
Outside the war zone

2003
I hate pink
Twilight Zone

2002
No way out

2001
Unbelongings

2000
Can we really look beyond the map?
Hair Unbelongings