Sarkar explores the othered body and hybrid identity through mythological paintings and drawings. In her paintings, abstracted bodies collide with shapes and residues in otherworldly spaces to form a queer, diasporic mythology. Sarkar explains that these “bodies are slick, crusty, diaphanous, partial, chunky, other—they vary in legibility, suspended in emergence and expulsion from the environment. Multiple selves make these works. At times I search for the painting through my body: I press, rub, and scratch, my actions becoming form events. Still a fourth self renders and excavates the mythic bodily forms, made not born, who dive through, push, and hold up the paintings.”
DESTRUCTION AND DISCOVERY, 2021
Glazed stoneware, hardware, rocks
Courtesy of the artist and Albertz Benda, New York
97 × 87 1/2 x 3 inches