GENS PUMPS. Of. Burjassot, 54
Remains It is the first solo exhibition of the Indian artist Sheela Gowda In Spain. It brings together a selection of works carried out since the years 90 in which Gowda combines popular imagery, the ordinary life and local legends of their little piece of India with forms and ways of doing things that come from outside. Local tradition is present in the type of materials used and the symbolic value that gives them. Talk later, For example, cow dung, a material that is used as fuel in India, as an insulator or to produce sculptures and toysguetheyes and what Gowda used to build a double row of bricks in a curved line en the part Mortar line (1996). We also talk about human hair —with which he has woven a huge “curtain” called In pursuit of (2019)— which in India has a spiritual use (offerings to divinity), commercial (wigs) and everyday (as a talisman to protect from traffic accidents). The artist combines the political and the poetic by resorting to abstraction (It started out being figurative.) that leaves the walls and occupies the space and challenges the viewer to search for their own meaning. S.M.
