Prabhavathi Meppayil
twenty sixteen, 2016 (left)
Thinnam on gesso panel
The work consists of a square panel covered in layers of white gesso, the surface of which has been marked with a thinnam—a traditional jewelry tool used by goldsmiths. The indents vary depending on the inflection and angle with which the metal tip hits the lime gesso.
Minjung Kim
Insight, 2006, 140 x 140 cm (through doorway)
Phasing, 2016, 69 x 69 cm (center)
Mixed media on mulberry Hanji paper
Minjung Kim's works on and of paper draw on the Korean tradition of process-oriented art. Indebted to the formal traditions of ink calligraphy and 1970s monochrome art (known as Dansaekhwa), the artist forges thoughtful meditations on fragility and strength, chaos and order.
Prabhavathi Meppayil
nineteen sixteen, 2016 (right)
Copper wire embedded in gesso panel
With her process-oriented works that follow a series of formal and structural tropes—white monochrome, seriality of the gesture, semi-mechanical process, reliance on the grid—Meppayil inscribes a local and traditional practice in the heart of modernist paradigms.
Photo © Andrea Rossetti