Artists / Writers:

Seemab Gul

This sculpture provides a glimpse of the sublime and acts as a repository for the viewer's spiritual beliefs. It is nevertheless, and in contrast, a material consumable object in the shape of a strong womans body.

Seemab sets myths and stereotypes of race, femininity, national and sexual identity against each other and against themselves, always following the wayward paths of desire - over the path of patriachy/patriotism - those moments when the body takes the lead.

The 'stretch' reflects a complex web of allusions and illusions that employ various materials in it production. Its seems a heavy metallic bronze but actually is paper/plaster...

Something delicate and perishable.

 

 stretch


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