Monday, July 21, 2008

Dr. Lakra


DR. LAKRA

Art has always questioned the medium through which it is portrayed. Extending ultimately, to questions over its very definition. Paint on canvass may be described as ‘pure art’, while a chair, designed principally as function, can include artistic elements. A cup, ostensibly a container, may be considered art if intended solely as an ornament, while a painting may be deemed craft if mass-produced. But where does skin fit? The organ that encompasses our physicality, yet divides our externality. Race, creed, colour, the building blocks of the ‘other’ and the familiar, are all superimposed upon the body’s outer shell. Can this value-laden entity become ‘pure art’, or is it confined by its attachment to the identities of those who wear it?

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