Event - Making Strange Exhibition

I also attended the Making Strange exhibition in Fowler Museum. This exhibition was created by Vivan Sundaram who is a contemporary artist who lives in Delhi. First of all, I thought it was interesting to see art from India. This art from India is unlike any art that I have seen before. That is because it is made from recycled materials and medical supplies. I thought this was a very interesting concept and one that is very forward looking in our society. It not only combines medicine and art by using medical supplies as art but if artists were able to use recycled goods for all of their art in the future I believe that would be great as well. The exhibit contains twenty-seven sculptures made from foam cups, surgical masks, hospital bandages and more. This part of the exhibit was known as Gagawaka and Sundaram paired this part of the exhibit with another set of sculptures known as Postmortem. The Postmortem exhibit stayed with the medicine and art theme by depicting the human body with anatomical models that examined aging and sickness. I believe that Sundaram was attempting to shed light on medicine, aging and conservation. Essentially he demonstrated how the human body will age but through the use of medicine we can prolong that process. Further, we must be able to conserve for humans to be able to age gracefully and medicine to have a lasting impact on our society. I hope this exhibit brings to light the ideas of conservation in today's society. I believe that if everyone could see this exhibit, they would realize the beauty of the acts of conservation and this idea would spread across the globe. Hopefully it could influence the way people see the world and that we want and need to sustain it for our future generations. Further, if an artist in a highly densely populated area like India can create this art using recycled goods, there is no reason that contemporary artists in the United States can't do the same. 

Me in front of a few sculptures

Sculptures made from recycled goods

The front of the exhibit