Los Angeles
“Disgust” is a specific and powerful term; Rina Banerjee uses it to describe bodily response and emotion at the extreme of self-control. She perceives disgust as the trigger for a transformative moment that alters perception. The term is particularly apt because so much of her work refers to the female body, a site for societal repression. As Banerjee has stated, “The show features the idea of fluids, which mark the uncontrollable body, the body that emits not only smell but liquid.” Banerjee’s work is a form of poetic bricolage that freights its readymade and repurposed parts with meanings relating to spirituality, colonialism, identity, the East Asian diaspora, and globalization…see the entire review in the print version of January/February’s Sculpture magazine.
