'Bone-Dance and the Impossible Sound' Print by Rithika Pandey x Matthew Herbert

Artist: Rithika Pandey (in collaboration with Matthew Herbert)
Full Colour Archival Giclee print on 300gsm cotton rag
A3

“This piece took shape from my conversation with Matthew Herbert about the nature of sound (exhalation) and how the body and bones serve as vessels for the ‘wind’ to move through. The protagonist exhales a void that embodies the form of an impossible sound. I wanted to subtly nod to Matthew’s incredible, experimental album ‘The Horse’ by incorporating a silhouette of the horse-shaped totem from his album cover” - Rithika Pandey

Rithika Pandey is a contemporary visual artist currently based out of Mumbai, India. Her boldly coloured and symbolically charged works imagine alternate worlds rooted in the ethos of adventure, transformation and recovery. Her research and practice engages with myth, ecology & science fiction to propose new intimacies between the human and more-than-human, intricately woven together in ritualized dynamism. Complicating hierarchies between nature and artifact, her work invokes new aesthetics as well as narratives of the ‘soft’ that address the social and ecological challenges of our time.