Artist talk by Sreshta Rit Premnath

OPEN TO THE PUBLIC |

Sreshta Rit Premnath talks about his work in connection with his Usdan Gallery solo exhibition Overbody, which presents new sculptures, paintings, and weavings and introduces the concept of the “overbody”—an invisible, vertical force that seemingly presses down upon sculptural forms. Works on view highlight the artist’s ongoing investigation of interstitial spaces between bodies and places as sites where care, responsibility, and political action take shape. His practice overall examines the unreality of borders and the political, social, and material forces that give them form. 

Premnath is an artist from Bangalore living in New York City and Williamstown, Mass. He has had solo exhibitions at venues including MIT List Visual Arts Center, Contemporary Art Center Cincinnati, Institute of Contemporary Art San Diego, Contemporary Art Museum St. Louis, Contemporary Art Gallery Vancouver, and Nomas Foundation in Rome. He is the founding editor of Shifter, a platform that convened public discussions and produced topical publications from 2004-2021. He is an Associate Professor of Art at Williams College.

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