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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
m/Other Tongue
Be Beyond Being 2021
Until You.. 2021
Uncatharsis 2020
BERKELEY FOR SALE !! 2020
QR 2020
UnMansplaining 2019
Lunch is cancelled 2019
Unlockdown 2020
Drawings
How to be a SUCKcessful Artist 2019
100 (un)silent ways 2019
grafitti
Sculpture
UnMYthU: UnKIND(s) Alternatives APT9
new media
Mit i sny (Myth and Dreams)2018
UnMYthU
Unlynching 2017
Sounding Drawing
Poetry
BASMATI SARIR BAGAN BA GAAN 1995-2005
Performance
Unline 2017
Installation
Unhome in City IF Angels 2017
We Unfinish each other 2017
I Replace You 2017
Embodied Language 2017
(Left Untold) 2016
Aphasia 2016
Return Gifts: For Sale 2016
MOU (Museum of Unbelongings)2011-2018
Kenopsia 2016
Mis(s)Guide 2016
Tongue that won’t stop wounding 2015
Once upon a sari 2015
Unwor(l)dly 2015
Ahh Taj 2011 – 2015
Nonversation 2015
Border Unseen 2014
I Am a Poet 2013 – 2014
Shop Lifting 2014
I have only one language; it is not mine 2014
No star, No land, No word, No Commitment 2004-2014
Non spinal 2007-2014
Poems Declined 2014
A ° V O I D 2014
Deafening Silence 2013
Same River Twice 2013
Artist: Unknown 2013
Cannibal Lullaby 2013
I am not me 2012
Devoid 2012
In House Adoption 2012
Twinkle Twinkle 2012
For(e)play 2011
I chew, I bite, The Unknown 2010-2011
In Transit 2011
Black Candy (Iforgotmypenisathome) 2010
No thing 2011
Unwanted 2010
Nothing lost in translation 2008
Freemithu 2007-ongoing
Abstract Cabinet 2009
Dropping Gold, Dropping Gold 2009
Me two 2009
I dig,I look down 2008
Half Full 2007
Kamdhenu 2007
Icarus 2006-2007
Indubala and her Unbelongings 2007
All that’s solid melts into air 2006
It’s good to be a queen 2006
Letters on the beach 2006
Drawing Room 2006
Ephemeral Affair 2006
Being Anastacia 2006
Spiritual materialistic 2005
Breathing 2004
Burnt by the sun 2004
Outside the war zone 2004
I hate pink 2003
Maa Jai Boluk 1998
Twilight Zone 2003
No way out 2002
Unbelongings 2001
Can we really look beyond the map 2000
Hair Unbelongings 2000-ongoing