Two channel video installation

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For the work ‘Flow’ I decided to roughly cut the Shiva Linga in two in order to make a somewhat humorous conceptual statement regarding the relationship between the masculine and the feminine. The two separate sections of the sculpture (the ‘linga’ and the ‘yoni’) are hung from my body using fishing line. This creates a sculptural form through which the activity on the streets of the city of Gaya is re-framed. The sharp incisions that the fishing line produces on the body recall the act of cutting the stone Shiva-linga in two: The line around the male neck resembles that of decapitation whereas that on the arm creates an almost yoni-like shape. Finally honey and milk is then poured onto the head and arm respectively.

The work is displayed as two-channel video projection in the corner of a room. In this way the force of gravity so readily apparent in the flow of the liquids and the hanging forms, seem to draw the shapes and their symbolic meanings closer to one another.