Amol K. Patil: 12th SITE SANTA FE International The Piled Up TracesSanta Fe, New Mexico
Past gallery exhibitions exhibition
Overview
Amol K Patil is part of the 12th SITE SANTA FE International with his exhibition "The Piled Up Traces", which explores class- and caste-based exploitation by combining sculpture, drawing, and video.
Patil's installation at the Santa Fe Village shopping center probes the relationship between the bodies of store clerks and those of their customers. Upon entering a vacant unit in the one-hundred-year-old building, viewers encounter a small bronze sculpture into which a bare light bulb repeatedly descends and then emerges-mimicking both the natural rhythm of night and day and the mechanical tempo of labor. While the bronze sculpture exudes an anthropomorphic presence, drawings along the walls conjure human bodies more directly-albeit only in fragments, as if glimpsed through cracks in the building's edifice. Patil understands his practice as a mode of storytelling, crafting narratives to promote solidarity that counters conceptions of human disposability.
Curated by Cecilia Alemani.
Patil's installation at the Santa Fe Village shopping center probes the relationship between the bodies of store clerks and those of their customers. Upon entering a vacant unit in the one-hundred-year-old building, viewers encounter a small bronze sculpture into which a bare light bulb repeatedly descends and then emerges-mimicking both the natural rhythm of night and day and the mechanical tempo of labor. While the bronze sculpture exudes an anthropomorphic presence, drawings along the walls conjure human bodies more directly-albeit only in fragments, as if glimpsed through cracks in the building's edifice. Patil understands his practice as a mode of storytelling, crafting narratives to promote solidarity that counters conceptions of human disposability.
Curated by Cecilia Alemani.
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