ARTIST PROFILE

Shivani Aggarwal

  • India (b. 1975 in New delhi)
  • Currently in New Delhi, India.

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Lace

Lace

  • 2009
  • Digital Photograph
  • Photography and painting with acrylics on archival canvas
  • 21 x 17 inches
  • The work is a set of 6 images

  • Through this work, I question the unending repetitive feminine tasks of adornment, of innocent acts of silent violence towards one’s own self , while confirming to the culturally defined roles
  • untitled - thumbnail Pin cushion - thumbnail Temporary attachment - thumbnail Lace - thumbnail Dilemma - thumbnail

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    photographic narratives-multiple images (photography and painting on canvas) | 2009 - 2011

I photograph my hands and feet as they are the ‘visibly functional’ parts of our body, the human tools and use them in my Images The body appears in my work too but mostly as a garment, I work between the presence and the absence of it along with drawing a reference to sewing the skin with the thread as if repairing the tear, the wound, the incision.