Mathesis: dub, dub, dub : Avantika Bawa

3 December 2009

Mathesis, Dub dub, dub, addresses the architecture of the gallery, its history as a warehouse and the geography of its surrounding areas. Using simple design principles and approaches; crates, bricks, debris, blue prints and projections are recontextulized in this unfamiliar territory, creating in the process a transformed experience of the gallery space. In this construction, the flawed is perfected and the familiar obscured, rendering an emergent and difficult communication to be examined and relearned.

 

“My work as such, explores combinations of order and anti-monumentality, wholeness and fragmentation, containment and dispersal, to create experiential spaces and interventions.  This emerges due in part due to my relationship with the legacy of Minimalism and its emphasis on reductive form, modularity and literal scale.

 

The incidental moments when these explorations collide and converse with one another, revealing the history of the time and space they occupy, has served as fodder for this work.”