Amba Sayal-Bennett traces forms, bodies and knowledge across different sites following a migratory logic. Informed by architecture and medicine, she works with computer-aided design software to create digital drawings that displace the body. These are transformed into smoothly intricate three-dimensional objects in cool, neutral tones, often made with metal that bends and folds like paper, translating visceral human physicality into something clean and machine-like. These cut-away, layered works are informed by Western histories of medicine, of controlling and containing the body through schematised illustrations, in contrast to the more holistic, metaphysical and syncretic ways of understanding the body passed down by the artist’s South Asian forebears.
June 17, 2025
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