Untitled

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Unnikrishnan’s paintings and carvings on brick record intimate scenes of life in the city and anecdotes of his relations with people and objects. These modest vignettes reveal the artist’s urge to archive objects and ways of living that face extinction as rural Kerala sees the collapse of traditional economies centred on craft and textiles. Untitled (2015) is a freestanding wall composed of more than three hundred painted and carved bricks that the artist has created in Pezhumpara and on site in Sharjah. Assembled as a wall dissecting the space, together these fragments suggest various structural possibilities of space and human behaviour in certain contexts.

This project was part of Sharjah Biennial 12