A piece of work by Pooja Gupta, MA Art and Science at Central Saint Martins, University of the Arts London.

Title – Taken
Size – 268 x 100 x 95 cm
Medium – Discarded medicine packets, aluminium sheet, wood and timber

Artist Statement:
The works build on the existing importance and utility of medicines in our lives. It explores medicine packets as an independent unit which gets reshaped and re-explained in relation to human interactions with the same. They are composed of used and discarded medicine packets in layers of repetition to magnify these deformations brought by human touch. It plays with the notion of absent presence within the space, retaining a constant conversation with the past happenings. It refreshes that feeling of touch in the minds of the people. Hence, giving a deeper meaning to touch, a more philosophical meaning that makes humans more connected to the packets of life saving medicines, linking literal and metaphorical utility of medicines.
The existence of these packets seems negligible in our mundane everyday life. But to me, it holds a bigger space than is considered. The works reciprocate the scale of these empty packets to bring together the very common but in a different way. It encourages us to take a step back and look at it differently. Looking at it now, is not mundane any more but initiates a new aesthetic dialogue around the overlooked everyday. It procures its meaning only when it lives in the experiences of others. It is recreated every time it is experienced. The work questions our way of looking at the humdrum of the everyday.

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