With stainless steel discs...

4:06 p.m.

10/05/21 - It would seem that certain works force us to take a visual and mental journey rather obsessively. If we think about the infinite points of Yayoi Kusama or Damien Hirst, we not only try to recompose the image and its meaning, but we also imagine the number of hours of work that it must have taken them to place the small points one by one.

Valay Shende (India, 1980) is a sculptor known for using small steel discs, placed side by side, in a construction process that ends up in a full-scale figure. It is certainly a meticulous work with a material that reflects light, which of course adds more drama to the sculpture. In fact, we even get to see ourselves reflected in the piece, as if we were part of it. As we admire the craftmanship, we discover that this young woman represented by Shende is wearing a frilly dress, gloves and a head accessory in a different color. She looks as if she was about to take a step forward on the catwalk of a fashion show. Despite the stillness of the material, the figure supposes a certain movement, however the artist added an eccentric detail: her boots are made of bricks. Here is the twist that Shende intends to give to the piece, which it is not only a perfect figure made meticulously, but it is also something else. The interpretation is left to us.