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Artworks
Ritesh Meshram b. 1975
Off Center, 2021Stainless steel23 x 12 x 2 in
58.4 x 30.4 x 5 cm
weight: 3 kg approxSomething curious happens when an ordinary object from everyday life enters Ritesh’s studio. Attempting to refashion familiar objects, he transforms their shape and function as he combines, bends, twists, crushes...Something curious happens when an ordinary object from everyday life enters Ritesh’s studio. Attempting to refashion familiar objects, he transforms their shape and function as he combines, bends, twists, crushes and detaches, to gives them a new life as a work of art. He begins by collecting utensils, surgical tools, and domestic items, and takes them apart, piece by piece. By surrendering to the chance twists and curves of metal, he plays, and manipulates, to the extent they are unrecognisable. Through spontaneous combinations of small, independent parts, rather than a premeditated composition, he reassembles them into a newly imagined figure. What he achieves is fragility and lightness, a soft delicacy with metal - as he investigates what happens when the mundane is remade in a surprising scale or form
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