"Livin' Things"
Livin' Things, a custom-made installation from Huma Bhabha 85 PR, will be on view at Museum Leuven from June 6–October 29, 2023.
About the exhibition
Huma Bhabha is known for her distinct visual language, which focuses on the human figure in all its expressive potential. She draws inspiration from ancient sculpture, modernism and contemporary popular imagery. Bhabha's monumental sculptures in striking material combinations hover between the recognisable, human or animal and the otherworldly. In powerful and sometimes unsettling works, she explores themes such as colonialism, war, displacement and memories of place.
Huma Bhabha's practice consists of sculpture, photography and drawings with ink, pastel and collage. Bhabha uses everyday materials such as Styrofoam, found wood, paint, clay and cork in her sculptures. She also makes works in bronze.
Bhabha draws on a wide range of references such as Ancient Greek, early African, Egyptian and Indian sculpture, modernism and expressionism. But her work is equally steeped in contemporary inspirations such as science fiction and horror films, current events and memories of her birthplace Karachi. Bhabha questions man's position in the world. She interweaves her works with allusions to environmental collapse, disasters of war, mass extinction and subsequent regeneration and transformation.
M shows a selection from her oeuvre, including her well-known androgynous totem figures and monumental drawings. The works are presented in a custom-made installation by M.
