There is a "dirty content" swapping culture that feeds a substantial part of the mailboxes of internet users around the globe. Focusing on this aspect of the web culture artist Felipe Cama [1970, Brazil] developed a series of works about the current relationships between the individual and information, about how the contemporary world deals with the universe of (un)desired images received as spam mail……in this show we (re)present a series of four works titled Japa, Delicia, Baby Doll and Honey
The organization of the human body is the object of study of Fernanda Chieco [1976, Brazil]. Her figures are rendered in a delicate outline in a variety of positions - ranging from frontal standing nude to crouching and reclining (almost) disinterested bodies. “I write stories or statements using drawings instead of alphabets. Human figures are represented in line drawings….In my work, the human body is a closed organic system that provides all necessary functions that the environment requires it to perform”. In this show we present four drawings from an ongoing series ‘Professionals’ that depict people engaged in a given activity as a source of livelihood. The Mushroomer is a professional in producing fly agarics: He pumps up debris that accumulates inside his testicles and bladder. A body reaction to the debris infiltration makes his oral mucous glands produce a sort of fungus that looks like a white egg, covered in the white warty material. As the mushroom grows, the red colour appears through the broken veil while the cap turns hemispherical.
The people presented in this series are all representatives of theirs professions (The Mushroomer, The Magotter, The Creamer, The Beller), each creating a self sustained system of production.
Mansoor Ali [1976, India] has always been engaged in evolving a broader, more open-ended sculptural vocabulary - in order to communicate with a spectator regardless of his/her linguistic, social and religious identity. Deciphering and questioning political and social inclinations in a rapidly changing society have constantly informed his works. “The intent behind my sculptural articulations is to engage with questions of faith and violence in an ever intensifying communal climate of the nation. As a result a quest and an urge for humanitarian values were and still are central to my sculptural explorations”. Alliance II and an installation titled Dance of Democracy are the other two works by Mansoor in this show
Through his work, Narendra Yadav [1964, India] directs the viewer to re-look at the obvious in delightful and satirical ways that never fails to surprise or to amuse. His object based works successfully straddle conceptual art, sculpture and installations. In Perpetual Need of the Other Even If Virtual, two fans are placed to depict autoerotism. Paper fan which requires airflow for its movement is rotating in front of a static electrical table fan. Visually it shows that the other is not needed at the same time it gives an indirect suggestion about the presence of ‘the other’ in an imagined or virtual avatar i.e. in the act of autoerotism itself. The scientific looking installation in Rejection of Finality takes a look at the in-between spectrum that exists in real life between two genders while in Chickenpox the artist explores a phenomenon which typically happens once in a lifetime. A condition similar to love glamorized visually
The predominant subject in the works of T.Venkanna [1980, India] has been sexual imagination, which also questions and confronts the stereotypical ways in which sexuality is defined and understood. “The sexual behavior of human beings is habituated by the societal norms and conditions - I believe it is due to this, the sexual fantasy gains importance in a human being's life and an individual achieves extreme pleasure out of this simple act of day-dreaming, wherein s/he escapes from the harsh realities of this world/society via an undisturbed and uninterrupted flight of imagination”. His continuous persistence with this subject has furthermore stimulated his interest to explore 'image – making' in a wide variety of mediums.