When Bharti Kher talks about her sculptures, she gives them pronouns. For two decades, the British-born artist, who lives between Delhi and London, has been making the most startling works to investigate the female body and all of them have become characters in their own right. As she puts it, “my sculptures are alive – they run around the gallery at night when we’re all asleep.”
“I am an animist,” Kher tells me. Central to her work is the ancient belief in universal consciousness and in the potential of all material. This openness to the beyond infuses the survey show – part retrospective, part new commission – she has opened at Yorkshire Sculpture Park (YSP) near Wakefield. Taken as a whole, the exhibition describes a most restless mind.
