Aneesha Shetty

Aneesha Shetty (b. 1999, Singapore) is an aspiring performance artist who recently completed her Bachelor’s Degree in Fine Arts at LASALLE College of the Arts, 2020. Her practice explores a multi-faceted array of mediums ranging from performances, multi-media installations and, drawings. Her practices unpack everyday routines as a means to engage in commentaries about change led by man-made interventions in urban and natural landscapes. Through the observation of acute behaviours enacted by people and organisms such as walking, breathing, and moving, she is inspired to reveal the many aspects of life that are often unnoticed, hidden, or ignored by us. Her work has most recently been exhibited at LASALLE's Brother Joseph McNally Gallery and Lim Hak Tai Gallery. She was one of the student curators of Our Eyes Beyond The Spectacle. In March 2018, Her first performance film titled Provoking The Silence was featured in Smash The Glassfilm festival examining global gender issues and was at the same time featured at the exhibition, Vice Versa.

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Third Sculpted Skin

Ninth Series +

23 May 2020

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‘Third Sculpted Skin’ is an excerpt of a 25-minute performance that documents the physical experience of binding a foreign form (jute string) to the artist’s body. The work plays with the tension of the two forms unravelling the struggle between acceptance and rejection as they seek to become a singular body. The number three is a symbolic metaphor used to illustrate its associations of luck, prosperity, and strength derived from my culture. Through the simple act of tying repeated thrice over the course of the performance, it addresses the ability of our bodies to adapt and react to forms foreign to their nature. Commentary