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Why can’t bras have buttons?
Artist Indu Antony’s newest publication Why can’t bras have buttons? This handmade photobook is her ഓർമ പെട്ടി (Orma Petti translates as ‘memory box’ in Malayalam), it offers a tiny window into the artist’s memories and life through personal objects paired with short written text.
Without an actual spine, leaves of memories take form as individual renderings and transform into an object that can be held by the hand. This photobook was created under the global pandemic in 2020 and further contextualized the cravings for physicality. Confined in an alone space and those endless zoom meetings, Antony searched inwards to her past and actively began stitching these trinkets with her hair. This act of stitching a partial part of the body to these personal objects meant revisiting memories and encountering mixed emotions, some pleasurable others painful.
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Indu Antony （b. 1982 Kerala, India）
Indu Antony is an artist based out of Bangalore and Kerala, India. Born and raised in a conventional Indian family she overcame various social obligations to pursue her forms of expression. She has hence been working with individuals from the fringes of society. She is known to explore tonalities of inward discussions which later on bursts out into the communal spaces. Her work primarily revolves around the notion of spaces and their intangible character in relation to the gendered body as a site of representation by understanding feministic stands which give way to performances and installations. Indu Antony has participated in several group exhibitions including the Serendipity Arts Festival, 2018; Kochi-Muziris Biennale (Collateral), 2018-19; Foto Fest Biennale, Houston, 2018; Queer Asia Photo Exhibition, London, 2017 and Photo Kathmandu, Nepal, 2015. She won the Toto funds Award for photography for the year 2011.
Book size: 16.6 x 23 cm
Weight: 560gms
First Edition 2021
Editions of 300 + 30 special edition
Photographs and text © Indu Antony
Edited and Designed by Indu Antony
Editions of 300 + 30 special edition
Photographs and text © Indu Antony
Edited and Designed by Indu Antony
Price: 2,500 NTD
Special edition box: 3,800 NTD (Book + Art work)
