Aman Aheer : Twin

Aman Aheer always focuses on the fragmentation and contradictory relationships caused by the body, desire, violence, faith, and intimacy in daily life. Compared to grand narratives, he prefers applying metaphor, mimicry and mirroring games in his creations. His perspective is onto those easily overlooked details of real things, while also enjoying manipulating the plasticity and limitations of the body. What truly interests the artist is that through local segmentation, magnification, and stitching, what a subtle gesture or pose could reveal, but what is hidden at the same time. Many of Aman Aheer's creative clues are based on his personal experiences, whether he comes from a Dalit caste in India (The term was only officially banned from all media in India in 2018) or today as a South Asian queer living in the Western world.

The theme of this exhibition is "Twin". It is related to the subject matter presented in the artist's artworks, such as feet, eyes gazing at each other, two crawling or head-standing figures, and so on. More meaningfully, it also implies the dual state or opposing and unstable relationship reflected in these works, such as the coexistence of violence and faith; separation of desire and body; spiritual freedom and limited mobility, as well as inappropriate pain repair. His works are related to the relationship between individuals and the outside world, but also reflect the duality of individuals. As Aman Aheer himself mentioned, each of us today seems to have a certain degree of twin status, constantly facing another self, distant and unable to approach each other, yet having deep connections. It seems strangely similar on the surface but different on the inside.