When women take up the brush or rummage through a collection of waste, what they manage to create is not just an artistic piece but actually tell a human story through their chosen means. This is specially so in the case of sculptors, where women have not resorted to sophisticated materials to express themselves but have shown that extraordinary creativity and gender innovativeness through sculptural creations can be achieved through malleable materials that need not be marble or metal. Hence, when viewing sculptures by women it is the message rather than the means of making them that are innovative. Thus the genre of womanly creations of this three-dimensional art form becomes the ideal tool to bring to the fore all the problems that women face, with startling clarity. While their numbers might be small in comparison to their male counterparts, and their works not as long lasting either, their message is chillingly attention-drawing and depict the real life environment as they force us to look within and suffer pangs of guilt. One of the pioneers in this line of thinking was none other than the famed sculptor Meera Mukherjee. Her mammoth bronze structure on the premises of a five-star hotel in Delhi, depicts the qualities of the king with that of a vulnerable calm serenity registered on the facial features of the sculpture. Besides its subject, Mukherjee had innovated in her material usage to sculpt the form. She had used the lost wax process and was influenced by the Dhokra sculptors of Madhya Pradesh and Chhattisgarh, thereby creating an iconography that is special to her. More than all else, the sculptor was a part of herself as it dominated the very spirit of human dignity, while on the superficial level, there is a certain playfulness in the seemingly disproportionate body contour of the image. When asked about the work she is known to have remarked: &ldquo;I did not straightaway find the subject. What I had decided was that it was to be a work which was not only big in size but also embodied a great idea.&rdquo;Echoing similar ideas through sculpture in our times is the work of the late Mrinalini Mukherjee, who glorified the ordinary hemp fibre into iconic proportions through her use of it as a sculptural medium. Through her unique and intricate process of knotting that hang from roof level depicts the &ldquo;fecund world of burgeoning life, lush vegetation iconic figures.&rdquo;<img src="http://magarticles.magzter.com/articles/10566/265155/5a931bea06c14/1519590230586.jpg"" owidth=486 oheight=320" style="height:395px; width:600px" />The works doublespeak in a vocabulary of art and artisanship in their crafting but have a strong note of sexuality as also&nbsp;Hindu symbolism in their curves and intricate weaving, worming their way out of such tight-laced casings into a kind of modernism that some critics compare equal the modernism of the likes of Henry Moore. Since theirs is a choice of unique materials for their creations, they have upped the yardstick of sculpture and included within its frameworks many an innovative process in the bargain. According to artist Nalini Malani, &ldquo;The medium may change, but the same thought process or idea runs through several types of my artworks. The exigency of the situation often directs me to a certain medium. So it&rsquo;s the exigency of how the thought has developed. This is actually what brings forth the material. The idea, the concept and the medium, dovetail into each other.&rdquo;Having clarified the role of the medium, Malani recounts how it was mural work that actually led the way to her use of reverse painting, for which she is well known. She recounts, &ldquo;In 1988, there were three of us &ndash; Bhupen Khakhar, Vivan Sundaram and me &ndash; who had the chance to make a mural together. It was Bhupen who came up with the idea of using the reverse glass painting method, since he had just returned from a workshop in Hungary where he had learnt this technique. So it was a bit of serendipity when Bhupen told me that he could teach me this technique, I was only more than willing to have him as my tutor.&rdquo; Another young sculptor, Benitha Perciyal of Chennai, has an interesting take on how sculpture came into her art practice. Born in the town of Tiruvannamalai in Tamil Nadu, which like other small towns of Tamil Nadu, is dotted with temples and surrounded by the Anaimalai hills. These geographical inputs seeped into her art in the form of material for art. Nature, identity and memory, became central as according to her claim, she had not seen anything plastic till she arrived at Chennai for her undergraduate studies. Today, her choice of materials is down-to-earth coal, sand, leaf, incense and seeds, among other things, to create her art installations. &ldquo;I wanted to use material that was not alien to me, material that carries memories and is a part of me,&rdquo; she says, adding that her work is often a metaphor for her own life and transformations. This preference can be seen in her work titled &lsquo;The Fires of Earth&rsquo; which was on display at the Kochi Biennale. Drawing on her Christian identity, she moulded frankincense, myrhh, cinnamon, cloves, lemongrass, cedar and bark, to create a message of transformation and transcendence, thereby bringing a bit of Kochi and its associations in common minds, front stage. Commenting on her art, the noted curator and writer Roobina Karode remarked: &ldquo;Perciyal&rsquo;s highly experimental practice emerges from her sustained&nbsp;engagement with materials and their unique cultural lives, and her own journey to discover the multiple facets of faith and its material manifestations.&rdquo;A more likely recall when speaking of women creators of sculpture and installations is Shilpa Gupta, whose mediums are found objects, incorporating a constant flow of meaning and performance. Her unique contribution is therefore in providing a shift from a stationary look at art as an object, to one of a participatory experience involving the viewer. Thus places, objects and people enquire the processes of classification that is given to them and restricts and censors them accordingly. Her work therefore has a universal ring albeit enacting on local and national communities. Her iconic &lsquo;There is no Explosive here&rsquo; is a communal experience on fear, examining the dynamics of safety and anxiety in a public context.<img src="http://magarticles.magzter.com/articles/10566/265155/5a931bea06c14/1519590271211.jpg"" owidth=373 oheight=576" style="height:927px; width:600px" />Her work emits a sense of activity as it is driven by audience participation and in some works, a viewer is invited to take home a part of her creation such as a bar from her work &lsquo;Speaking Wall&rsquo; of 2010. In &lsquo;Theatre&rsquo;, recorded voices direct the viewer through the work, thereby shifting the role of the viewer from a passive gazer into an active participant.By far, the most pronounced among contemporary women sculptors is Bharti Kher, who uses the iconic bindi. She has infused with ambivalent meanings that span both tradition and modernity. Her works are startling portrayals of misconceptions, misinterpretations that pervade society, especially when it comes to defining women&rsquo;s roles in society. Her representative work &lsquo;The Skin Speaks a Language not it s own&rsquo; of 2006, depicting a dead elephant covered with bindis is a piece of fantasy on the surface level. Deeper portrayal in it touches upon allegorical tales and more. Her recent sculpture depicting the heart of a blue whale emphasizes the romantic idea of a &lsquo;large heart&rsquo;. An artist who reinterprets the current India on her own terms, her sculptures are explorations of her identity as she finds herself in transience between India and the west. She speaks vociferously about the perception of being female through her sculptures that sometimes include everyday things from women&rsquo;s lives such as tea cups, thereby examining the&nbsp;woman in her domestic space as also the pressure in today&rsquo;s woman, to portray herself and her body in as youthful a form as possible. In the same vein are the works of artist Sheela Gowda that show the urban and rural India through the use of her materials that range from recycled materials to cow dung, incense, human hair, gold leaf and dyes, among other things. The ongoing enquiry in her is to decipher and depict the contradictions in Indian society, which is abundantly showcased through her choice of materials. Speaking of her art, the Guardian newspaper commented: &ldquo;As well as using incense she turned old bits of house timber into battered versions of abstract sculpture and fashioned ropes of human hair into looping drawings. Cow dung, spice thread were all configured in her intriguing installations subtly bringing light into the lives of those on the economic margins.&rdquo; Thus, women sculptors have rewritten the meaning of their art in a three-dimensional format. Not only is it an object of art that they make, but it is art with an inherent meaning. Finally their choice of materials throws a challenge to the more conservative choices and glorifies the simplest of objects to the pedestal of the sublime.

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