Sheshadev Sagria
Carrier bag
2022
Watercolour, photographs, woodcut print and photoperformance
We've heard it, we've all heard all about all the sticks spears and swords, the things to bash and poke and hit with, the long, hard things, but we have not heard about the thing to put things in, the container for the thing contained. That is a new story. That is news. And yet old. Before--once you think about it, surely long before--the weapon, a late, luxurious, superfluous tool; long before the useful knife and ax; right along with the indispensable whacker, grinder, and digger– for what's the use of digging up a lot of potatoes if you have nothing to lug ones you can't eat home in. The first cultural device was probably a recipient. Many theorizers feel that the earliest cultural inventions must have been a container to hold gathered products and some kind of sling or net carrier.
Women of my village turns their pallu the "end part of the sar"i into a bag, through which they carry vegetables, leaf's,
Chana, sari is becoming bag and becoming belly or container, bodies is changing demanding a unique skill to function,
Body is becoming strange and gradually unknown to the others or an alien or may be a deformities for other.
A new skin is emerging while this body is spending time in paddy field farming, picking roots, cutting grass,
checking soil, directing water. various type of insects or environment causes a unique skin characteristic
which are temporary as well permanent.
