Nandita Mukand
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Vessels of Change
The Columns  Gallery, Singapore
​2020

​The theme of vessels as signifiers of human experience underpins this body of work. In recent times, we humans have experienced greater levels of drama but also of ennui. As we have started living even more of our lives online, there is a need to connect with the tactile, the physical, the sensuous. The material experience brings about an understanding of our lived experience that is deeper than words and logic. The collapsing cell-like forms within the sculptures reflect in many ways our current way of life- individual and discrete worlds interwoven with the whole, caving-in yet ever evolving; pulled, pushed, impacted, vulnerable, growing. The interwovenness symbolizes the connections in our lives- the connections we urban dwellers have with Nature, but also with people around the globe. 
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Installation view, "Vessels of Change" 2020
The sculptures reference plants and growth I have studied during past artist residencies in wilderness areas of the earth. We are now isolated from the unique solace of the wide open spaces. Community interactions have become limited and many long to once again be with loved ones in other countries. We are more cut-off than ever from Nature and from each other, relying on technology to help fill the gaps. Organic forms captivate me because their structure suggests how living beings incrementally adapt to circumstances. In this context the sculptures become drawings in space, a three dimensional mark-making symbolic of how each of us is trying to respond to the new reality we find ourselves in.
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Installation views, "Vessels of Change", 2020
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Installation views, "Vessels of Change", 2020

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Interwoven Blossoming
Cloth, plaster, resin, acrylic, wire
60 x 54 x 17 cm

2019

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Lost Sun
Cloth, Paper, Plaster, Resin, Paint, Hot Glue, Fishing Line, Wire
95 x 100 x 40 cm
​2018

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Growing Whither 1
Cloth, paper, plaster, wire, resin, acrylic paint
120 x 109 x 40 cm
2019

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Growing Whither 2
Cloth, paper, plaster, resin, acylic paints, wire, plastic,
100 x 84 x 20 cm
​2019

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Onwards 1
Cloth, paper, plaster, acrylic, resin, wire, wool, fishing line, hot glue
78 x 68 x 88 cm
 2020

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Collapsing Evolving 2
Cloth, paper, plaster, acrylic, resin, wire
83 X 50 x 18 cm
2020 ​

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… and Again, Grow Some More
Cloth, paper, plaster, acrylic, resin, wire
46 x 112 x 18 cm
2020 

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Growing Softly 
Cloth, plaster, acrylic, resin, wire
69 x 35 x 23 cm
2020 ​

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Collapsing Evolving 1 
Cloth, paper, plaster, acrylic, resin, wire
30 X 58 X 85 cm
2020 

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Adjacent Worlds
Cloth, plaster, acrylic, resin on stretched canvas
92 x 124 x 18 cm
2020 

Installation views, "Vessels of Change", 2020
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