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Ruby Chisti is one of the many Pakistani artists on the rise. Her soft sculptures , fashioned out of cloth , canvas , straw and cardboard. In an interesting way , she challenges the norms of art and art as an institution playing the hierarchy of sculpture and what it is usually made of - stone and wood.
these are almost painful--(and yet teddy bear-ish ironic) the animals against the wall (ache) set after the women; their spines bent inward, protective (or praying); even the materials. they make me pause and think. thanks for the intro.
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ReplyDeleteI like the notion of soft sculpture - I often find harder materials difficult to engage with for some reason, but the tactility of these feels more... accessible for me. Definitely introduces new ways of thinking about the form.
ReplyDeletethe row of animals creeps me out a bit though - it reminds me of when we had the various animal epidemics here, and I'd drive past fields filled with dead cattle... unnerving stuff...
these pieces are so intriguing. i love the idea of challenging the status quo of sculpture by bringing it into the realm of the soft. i must admit, however, finding the animals a bit creepy as well. they made me think, though, and that is what it's all about.
ReplyDeletethese are absoloutely brilliant i mst say.. they r so cute!!
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