19/03/2025
The placement of a cut determines the divide. For British-Indian artist Amba Sayal-Bennett, this deceptively simple statement yields a host of inter-laced problems. Early in her arts education, Sayal-Bennett found herself presented with a parcelled cadaver; an enthused professor teaching anatomy drawing would have it that her class created studies directly from the dissections of medical students. This encounter – rather, a paroxysm confounding the abstract and the literal – the artist doubles back to for its undeniable uncanniness: 1. the brutality of cutting that exposes and lays bare; 2. the power of looking to de-subjectivize the human body, render it object. It transpires that cutting is not only for and of the body; objects reveal their becoming-body through the very act of being cut.
Text by Elaine ML Tam
Amba Sayal-Bennett’s Anatomy of parts continues until 19 April. We are open from 11-6 pm today.
Full text and show documentation is now online!
