Soil as Witness | Memory as Wound
Solo exhibition at Tarq, Bombay, India March 2019.
Installation images courtesy Tarq
Soil as Witness | Memory as Wound
Solo exhibition at Tarq, Bombay, India March 2019.
Installation images courtesy Tarq
Cadence | 26:28 |2018
Untitled |Graphite on Arches paper | 30″ x 22″ | 2018
Title: Book of Abundance | Medium: Graphite, collage on Hahnemühle paper | Size: A3, hand bound, custom crafted notebook | Year: 2017
The 82 works in this custom, hand bound unique edition were executed over a period of 8 months, wherein Makanji’s preoccupations with environmental issues were translated into a deliberate merger of drawings and collages. Makanji chose the form of the work to be a book with the specific intent of creating an immersive and intimate experience for the viewer.
The book questions our perceptions of nature and how deeply conditioned by consumerism we are to think that a walk amidst cultivated swathes of land is a walk in “nature”. How the very notion of the “wild” can easily destabilize the human and how we have fought to subjugate and bring to order the “wild”.
The monochrome drawings in the book are layered with nuance, suggesting fragility and the senescent human form where as the collages being more pronounced, are clearly indicative of the violent impact of humans on the planet. These collected works attempt to reflect balance and imbalance; the futility of humans aspiring for eternity and that perhaps nature is the only absolute.
Title: Circadian Rhythms III | Medium: Brass, bone, shell | Size: Dimensions variable | Year: 2018
Title: Circadian Rhythms II | Medium: sedimented shell, brass | Size: dimensions variable | Year: 2018
Title: Circadian Rhythms | Medium: Shell, stone, brass | Size: Dimensions variable | Year: 2018
Medium: Collage on mid century map of Colombier, Switzerland. Size: 30″x 22.5″. Year: 2016
Book of Absence is a labor of love. Something I started in an old sketchbook in December 2015. It took me exactly a year to complete and while it was a tremendously difficult year, I found a way to pour my grief into this book and it was what kept me moving forward.
In an A4 book format, Book of Absence takes a cue from old botanical and zoological illustrations and positions itself as a visual hand drawn archive depicting a probable loss of species. It is entirely handcrafted and custom bound by hand. Book of Absence exists as a unique edition.
Medium: Collage on mid century map. Size: 30″ x 22.5″. Year: 2015