Huma Bhabha was
born in 1962 in Karachi, Pakistan. She received
her bachelors from Rohde Island School of Design, and then went to Columbia
University in 1989 for her masters. Huma
Bhabha have her first solo museum show in New York. 30 of her statues was displayed,
plus her collage-drawing spread in MoMA PS1. The artist had a longtime interest
in science fiction in the 1970s and general themes such as war, death, cultural
displacement and memory. Bhabha sculpts expressive, cluster, rough texture, unusual
materials like Styrofoam, air-dried clay, wires, cork, and construction scraps.
Bhabhas would melt and put the materials together and create figures that is a
mixture of construction to a feeling of environment sense. The statues would
have the sculpture style would take place during the ancient times. that is
similar to the ancient time, but is made by dispose material which makes the
artist a contemporary artist. She creates mxiture of science fiction and traditional cutlure all together. This statue is called “Ghost of Humankindness” (2011). It’s a
sinister,automaton-like figure that stands over 8 feet and 1100 lbs. The body is stacked together in a totemic style made from Styrofoam.The face is deformed as it was melted and painted in bronze. Then you have the
collage-drawings. Each picture has a form of a skeletal head,
some of which are covered over a lot of resemblance of miserable scenery. A
couple of the drawings would be in large scales and the use of hint of bright
colors that are less straightforward than the statues. Huma Bhabha’s artwork is the mixture of future and the past. By sculpting the historical figurative, using
old and modern objects that are thrown away, and expressing the future in a
dreaded way.
source:
"Exhibit of the Week: Huma Bhabha: Unnatural Histories." Exhibit of the Week: Huma Bhabha: Unnatural Histories. 19 Dec. 2012. Web. 10 Dec. 2015.
"Unnatural Histories." ArtAsiaPacific: Huma Bhabha. Web. 10 Dec. 2015.
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