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Shivani Aggarwal

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

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Temporary attachment

Temporary attachment

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

  • The work deals with the attachment of the skin with the cloth it wears, which further defines the identity of the person. The Identity which is transient.
  • 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.