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Courtesy of Chemould Prescott Road

Yardena Kurulkar
Neant, 2011
Inkjet print on Hahnemuhle matt archival photoray paper
28 x 36 in
71 x 91.4 cm
71 x 91.4 cm
Edition of 5 plus 1 artist's proof (#1/3)
The cyclic transience of life and death, and the space of non-being in between the two, forms a pivotal point in Kurulkar’s practice. Neant, meaning void or nothingness, is a...
The cyclic transience of life and death, and the space of non-being in between the two, forms a pivotal point in Kurulkar’s practice. Neant, meaning void or nothingness, is a digital print of Kurulkar’s own foot, made in clay, submerged in water and fast eroding. While seemingly fragile and malleable, elements like water and clay are also the bedrocks of civilational history. In that moment of submergence, Kurulkar revisits the embedded memories in each as she observes the fluid transition from being to non-being to being, as the water is engulfed by the clay.