Yamini Nayar
Underfoot And Overhead
2008
C-print
76 x 102 cm |
Yamini Nayar works with installation as photography, creating imaginative, psychologically laden interiors in cardboard boxes. These boxes are destroyed after the work is photographed, so that the photographic image serves as a stand-in for the original work. In representing invented spaces as still images, any sense of scale is concealed from the audience. The interiors appear destroyed by acts of nature. In Underfoot and Overhead a dishevelled staircase falls precariously from a doorway with a thread of foliage hanging over the darkened entrance. Once inside, a single light-bulb appears to illuminate a darkened room. The work takes its name from a Rudyard Kipling poem. |