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Shivani Aggarwal

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

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wounded instruments

wounded instruments

  • 2012
  • Acrylic on Paper, stretched on cardboard with a wooden frame
  • jumbled red threads are displayed in the middle, paintings are displayed on the left and right of the threads.
  • 6 x 4 inches
  • The work is a set of 23 small drawings each of the above mentioned dimension. display can be variable.

  • These are a set of paintings dealing with instruments, personal and domestic which are violated by the very thread the instruments are dealing with

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  • wounded instruments - thumbnail Transient Threads - thumbnail Entangled 2 - thumbnail undoing - thumbnail Uncut - thumbnail Half knit - thumbnail

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    Thread paintings (series of acrylics on canvas) | 2008 - 2013

Images of jumbled, entangled threads on canvas. The ‘thread’ sometimes symbolizes the social fiber and at other times, draws reference to the blood vessels or the umbilical chord. The threads, throbbing with life create intricate, swirling patterns, which are both shocking and compelling. They twist and turn infinitely into a cycle of decay and repair,