Title: Circadian Rhythms V | Medium: wood, brass, steel | Size: brass plate 12″ | Year: 2019
Selected works
Circadian Rhythms IV
Title: Circadian Rhythms IV | Medium: stone, brass | Size: dimensions variable | Year: 2019
Soil as Witness | Memory as Wound
Soil as Witness | Memory as Wound
Solo exhibition at Tarq, Bombay, India March 2019.
Installation images courtesy Tarq
Cadence
Cadence | 26:28 |2018
Significant Other
Untitled |Graphite on Arches paper | 30″ x 22″ | 2018
Book of Abundance
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.
Circadian Rhythms III
Title: Circadian Rhythms III | Medium: Brass, bone, shell | Size: Dimensions variable | Year: 2018
Circadian Rhythms II
Title: Circadian Rhythms II | Medium: sedimented shell, brass | Size: dimensions variable | Year: 2018
Circadian Rhythms
Title: Circadian Rhythms | Medium: Shell, stone, brass | Size: Dimensions variable | Year: 2018
Hiraeth XVI
Medium: Collage on mid century map of Colombier, Switzerland. Size: 30″x 22.5″. Year: 2016