Sherman was drawn to Bawa’s work for its intellectual, historical and technical rigor. If you try and categorize it in a canon and history, or find deeper, more profound meaning, you’ll just be running around in circles.” “’Don’t think, just use your instinct.’ There’s something very instinctual about wanting to enjoy and appreciate this. “I’m going to quote something really cheesy,” said Bawa, who watched “Top Gun” on the bus ride to Normal. That can be intimidating to some viewers, who often feel a need and desire to “get it.” In addition to Bawa’s scaffolds, large-scale drawings hang on the surrounding walls, grayscale, 2-D versions of her inspirational bars and bolts built into the middle of the gallery.īawa is heavily influenced by the mid-20th century minimalist movement, reducing artistic mediums to their very structure and form. “Figuring out how to put scaffolds in an art gallery is a lot different than figuring out how to put paintings in one.” “Scaffolds are insurance nightmares, to put it lightly,” said curator Troy Sherman, who picked Bawa for the first show of his tenure at University Galleries. These scaffolds are meant to be seen from under, around and between - but not on. So, I wanted to reflect a little bit of that construction and the urban planning outside, but also shake it up a little bit.” The layout is very simple and basic - not that that’s a bad thing. “I came in late last night and I was walking around town,” she said. So, in this case, Uptown Normal and the Illinois State University are fodder for her scaffolds. Each scaffold - its colors, dimensions and organization - is custom built as a response to Bawa’s current location. Trained as a painter, Bawa thinks less about the structural integrity of these scaffolds than the visual topography they create in a space. But they’ve also appeared in an Oregonian pasture and on a salt flat in India. She’s built scaffolds in blank, white galleries like the rooms of University Galleries. But at some points, I need to find out structurally what’s going on.”īawa splits her time between Portland, Oregon and New Delhi. “I like being the voyeur, the playful voyeur who looks at these schematics and structures and just appreciates them for what they are. ![]() “If you show me a blueprint, I could maybe read 30% percent of it, truth be told,” she said. 17-March 3 at University Galleries in Uptown Normal. “I’m very interested in architecture, but I don’t really know the language,” said Bawa, a multimedia artist whose work is showcased from Jan. ![]() What I would like is for the entire video to be released, without editing, so that everyone can understand what actually happened,” Azevedo said, according to a machine translation.Taylor told Globo she had reported the incident to police.Quebra Onda, a Brazilian clothing brand, posted on Instagram following the incident that they had ended their partnership with Azevedo, reaffirming their stance against “any and all types of violence, mainly against women”.Avantika Bawa is obsessed with scaffolds. ![]() Profanities are exchanged before the footage cuts off.In a video included in Globo’s report, Azevedo apologized for the incident, but also claimed that the footage shared by Taylor was edited and did not show the entire altercation.“Yesterday’s disastrous event occurred due to a disagreement where I was also attacked, disrespected and insulted by the couple, even though I was convinced that nothing justifies my attitude. Taylor pushes him off to prevent a collision.After the incident, Azevedo can be seen paddling towards Taylor before striking at her head.Further footage, recorded by McHarg, shows the altercation continuing on the beach, with several men rounding on Taylor and Charlie. American pro surfer Sara Taylor was punched in the head during a dispute with several men at a beach in Bali, Indonesia, footage from the incident shows.Footage recorded by Taylor’s friend Charlie McHarg shows Taylor in the water off Pandawa Beach.According to Taylor, who gave an interview to Brazilian news outlet Globo, Brazilian surfer Joao Paulo Azevedo punched her in the back of the head after she and a friend of Azevedo’s dropped in on the same wave.Footage from the incident shows Taylor, in a green T-shirt, and a man in a white T-shirt both attempting to surf the same wave.
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