Madhvi Subrahmanian b. 1962
Untitled (from the series Mappa Mundi - Orange & Black), 2017
Stoneware
28 x 33 inches
The Mappa Mundi series maps the routine of daily journeys, and embeds within it the clay from each of the cities that the artist inhabits – Mumbai and Singapore. It...
The Mappa Mundi series maps the routine of daily journeys, and embeds within it the clay from each of the cities that the artist inhabits – Mumbai and Singapore. It is overlaid with the paths travelled through 0me in the mind’s eye and the transient nature of memory as she traces her routes, filling and lining them with fine gold, borrowing from the Japanese technique of Kintsugi.