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Artworks
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Subliminal Horizons, Installation View, Alexander Gray Associates, Germantown (2021).
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Subliminal Horizons, Installation View, Alexander Gray Associates, Germantown (2021)
Huma Bhabha
Not About You, 2012Wood, wire, Styrofoam, wire mesh, cork, lucite, and acrylic paint65 1/2 x 11 1/8 x 12 1/2 in (166.4 x 28.3 x 31.8 cm)HB002Further images
Huma Bhabha’s work addresses themes of memory, war, displacement, and the pervasive histories of colonialism. Using found materials and the detritus of everyday life, in works like the bust-like Not...Huma Bhabha’s work addresses themes of memory, war, displacement, and the pervasive histories of colonialism. Using found materials and the detritus of everyday life, in works like the bust-like Not About You (2012) she creates haunting human figures that hover between abstraction and figuration, monumentality and entropy. While her formal vocabulary is distinctly her own, Bhabha embraces a post-modern hybridity that spans centuries, geography, art-historical traditions, and cultural associations. Her work includes references to ancient Greek Kouroi, Gandharan Buddhas, African sculpture, and Egyptian reliquary. At the same time, it remains insistently modern, looking to Giacometti, Picasso, and Rauschenberg for inspiration, as well as to science fiction, horror movies, and popular novels.
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