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Study #16. What is Love, Huma Bhabha

20 Jan-8 Apr 2017

Draf (david Roberts Art Foundation)
London NW1 7JE

Overview

Study #16 looks in depth at the sculpture What is Love, 2013 by New York-based Pakistani artist Huma Bhabha from the David Roberts Collection. Additional selected works by Bhabha are presented alongside the work. A new text by writer Barbara Casavecchia studying What is Love is commissioned for the project. The work comprises a tall cork plinth carrying a white polystyrene bust painted with acrylic paint, oil stick and lipstick. Its four perpendicular faces are carved in shallow relief; front, side and rear views of a grotesque figure with elongated breasts, torso, arms, fingers and legs.