An evening of readings by artists, writers and poets responding to the themes and works within T. Venkanna’s current exhibition, Sculpture Garden.
Writer Eva Gold, poets Rashed Aqrabawi, Bhanu Kapil and Mantra Mukim and artist, researcher and writer Michiko Oki, will draw inspiration from the themes explored in Venkanna’s exhibition, including ideas surrounding sex, desire, power, violence and transgression.
Comprising a series of new egg tempera paintings on board, Sculpture Garden is Venkanna’s first institutional solo exhibition. Together, the paintings create a complex portrait of national identity and the persistence of desire, as Venkanna documents the body as both a site of liberation and control.
