Mr India/your body is fragranced (I love you, I love you, I love you)
KRYSTLE PATEL
04 – 19 JUNE, 2022
The latest in our INTHEWINDOW series of exhibitions sees KRYSTLE PATEL explore identity and in particular a specific idea of hyphenated identity.
Language at is fullest and most empty influence my current research, particularly with respect to the limitations of identity politics and their relation to being. I am interested in verb, and how through relationships and unfolding we can begin to understand the ourselves as liquid and in flux.
Surfaces and their association with energy flow form both my conceptual and material language referencing colour, texture and sound. I work with video, textile and installation often without a clear resolution in mind, locating a space between opposing ideas to expand and enter with a sense of uncertainty, the answering of one questions with yet another.
@youmockedmeonce
This work is a material expression of language. Looking primarily at the unstable and evolving relationship between the British - Asian and both countries with which they are intimately, yet not securely, related to, I have used the language of Bollywood as a means to interrogate both the value of certain reductive attitudes to Eastern aesthetic tropes and the violence enacted on a hyphenated identity.
Using a 1980’s Bollywood film song as anchor, I have translated the emotional energy into material. Colour, movement and SHINE. This frenzy is an expression of intense emotion and dissolution, vital markers of the mutable body. Qualities that I have fragmented and expressed via materials considered to be low cost and low class. Are materials that excite the senses of less value than those that send one into deep contemplation? Surfaces are too often thought of as a veneer, false, lacking meaning when in fact they are sites where complex forces meet. They are mutable boundaries through which we communicate and build relationships. They are skins and spaces in which we may enter and through which we may SHINE.
In a time where culture and identity are mined and fetishized, I present a work that answers no questions and rather one that asks more.
- Krystle Patel, 2022
Using a 1980’s Bollywood film song as anchor, I have translated the emotional energy into material. Colour, movement and SHINE. This frenzy is an expression of intense emotion and dissolution, vital markers of the mutable body. Qualities that I have fragmented and expressed via materials considered to be low cost and low class. Are materials that excite the senses of less value than those that send one into deep contemplation? Surfaces are too often thought of as a veneer, false, lacking meaning when in fact they are sites where complex forces meet. They are mutable boundaries through which we communicate and build relationships. They are skins and spaces in which we may enter and through which we may SHINE.
In a time where culture and identity are mined and fetishized, I present a work that answers no questions and rather one that asks more.
- Krystle Patel, 2022
Language at is fullest and most empty influence my current research, particularly with respect to the limitations of identity politics and their relation to being. I am interested in verb, and how through relationships and unfolding we can begin to understand the ourselves as liquid and in flux.
Surfaces and their association with energy flow form both my conceptual and material language referencing colour, texture and sound. I work with video, textile and installation often without a clear resolution in mind, locating a space between opposing ideas to expand and enter with a sense of uncertainty, the answering of one questions with yet another.
@youmockedmeonce
