ISBN：9788417769376  

书名/Title：希拉·高达：制作（文章与访谈）｜Sheela Gowda: Making (Essays and Interviews)

作者/Author：希拉·高达｜Sheela Gowda

出版/Publisher：La Fabrica，2019

装帧/Binding：精装，260页｜Hardcover, 260 pages

尺寸/Dimensions：17 x 24 cm

语种/Language：英语｜English

印刷：西班牙

内容提要：

本书展示了印度雕塑家希拉·高达（Sheela Gowda，1957年-）20多年的艺术创作。该书围绕作品制作展开，汇集了不同时期使用各种材料制作而成的尺寸各异的装置和雕塑作品，以及一批基于图像创作的作品。

希拉·高达曾接受过专业的绘画训练，然而她对牛粪这种特定媒介的兴趣促使她从二维转向三维的创作。在印度教经文中，牛粪被认为是神圣的。在印度，牛粪通常由农村妇女制成饼状，或用作燃料，或应用于房屋的墙壁上，以保护其中的居住者。因为牛粪在印度人的生活中几乎无处不在，所以希拉·高达认为这是融入她作品的理想材料：它是抽象的、自然的、现成的，而最重要的是，它具有文化、地域、政治和个人历史的意涵。

This catalogue showcases more than 20 years of Indian sculptor Sheela Gowda’s (born 1957) artistic production. The work featured in Making brings together installations and sculptures as well as a selection of works based on images, ranging from different periods and constructed using various materials and scales.

Though Gowda was trained as a painter, it was her interest in the specific medium of cow dung that prompted a shift in her work from two to three dimensions. Considered sacred in Hindu scripture, dung is formed into patties, often by village women laborers, and burned for fuel or applied to walls of Indian homes to protect their inhabitants. Ubiquitous in the Indian domestic landscape, the cow dung pats proved to be an ideal medium for Gowda to incorporate into her work: abstract, natural, available, and, most importantly, charged with reference—to culture, to place, to politics, and to personal history.