Banerjee, Rina b.1963 / With breath Taking Consumption Her Commerce Ate While She Was Being Eaten
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"With breathtaking consumption (2008; plate 3a-b) is seductively dangerous- one can imagine the silky feel of feathers against the sharpness of shards of glass vials. There is a creature at the centre of the rickety jute bed that threatens to bite. A horrible act driven by desire has happened here. Yet the bed, with its snaking talk of cow wire shells, thread, and the vials and feathers, seems to be transforming into a revengeful mythological creatures" - In the catalogue, Rina Banerjee Make me a Summary of the World, 2018, Make Me a Summary of the World by Jodi Throckmorton, page 23. 

"Drawn to organic shapes that reflect internal organs, the sexualization of the body, and "how we are built inside," she toys with connections in nature: corrals in relation to the coiled lobes of the brain, intestines, and more. These ideas are taken to their extreme in one sculpture form 2008 presents a bodily-like form as an unravelled mass of internal organs, spilling outwards from a wooden divan across the gallery floor. The consumption of desire and flesh itself is expressed in the work's cryptic title, which reads:  With breathtaking consumption her commerce ate while she was being eaten (2008; plate 3a-b)." - In the catalogue, Rina Banerjee Make me a Summary of the World, 2018, Rina Banerjee Global Travler, Rachel Kent, page 93

Rina Banerjee (b.1963, India)

With breath Taking Consumption Her Commerce Ate While She Was Being Eaten, 2008

Mixed media: Jute, wood charpai, cowerie shells, glass & thread
366 x 259 x 61 cm
144 1/8 x 101 15/16 x 24 in.
Provenance:
Espace Gallery, New Delhi, India Current Location:
USA - NY - Brinks, Long Island InstallationSouth Asia

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The Editors of ARTnews, Rina Banerjee at Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, Philadelphia
ARTnews (Magazine), 01/03/19
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Art + Education, Rina Banerjee: Make Me a Summary of the World
Art + Education (Press Release), October 2, 2018
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CBS Philly, ‘Make Me A Summary Of The World’ Exhibit Brings Indian Art To PAFA
(Press Release), July 7, 2018
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Finding India: Art of the new century
San Jose Museum of Art, Taipei, Taiwan (Catalogue), October - December 2010

Rina Banerjee: Make Me a Summary of the World, Catalog
Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts and San Jose Museumof Art (Catalogue),

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