KYNKYNY Art Gallery presents Nestled Within, a solo exhibition of Janarthanan Rudhramoorthy’s work in which free-floating, untethered and massive metallic beings take centre stage. The Chennai-based artist has a deep fascination with the human form, and his exhaustive explorations showcase its strength, agility and beauty.
Airborne and freed from the earth’s gravitational pull, sculptures made of iron and steel are suspended dramatically from walls and ceilings, casting mysterious skeletal shadows as they soar, twist and plunge through empty space. Somatic, kinetic and tactile, the humans made of iron have a powerful presence, making you feel them viscerally before you can respond to them intellectually. At a time of increasing anxiety about body image and ageing, Rudhramoorthy’s sculptures offer us glimpses of how to live in our bodies with awareness and equanimity.
Find out more about the show here.