Hemali Bhuta, Grayscale, Glycerine soap with edible food colour, 10 blocks of 12 x 12 inches each, 2012 

The work pasy homage to forms that are often ignored or overlooked—the most mundane parts of daily life and ritual surrounding middle-class life in India.  The work creates a meditative space to contemplate the meaning of small interventions toward beauty in daily life.  

Bhuta’s sculptural intervention extends from the simple and natural form of a line, and her work draws light on the fact that while lines separate end-points, they also simultaneously connect them. In her own words, Bhuta is constantly concerned with the ‘poetics and politics of line.’ Bhuta points that a ‘shift of a line’ through folding or displacing it ‘doesn’t delete the line but on the contrary adds another.’ She appropriates architectural structures, and her interventions lead to their collapse in terms of both their meaning and function. This process allows for “an introspection of the self” for Bhuta.