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Sieve---through

This bed becomes "Sieve—through"; the first official iteration of a project entitled: This one wish you have will come true; through "Sieve---through", the divisions between the real artist, Rekha B, who is imagined, and the other artist, MS (the credited artist), who is not imagined, begin to crumble…like dirt. The bed was inaugurated somewhere else, it has already been used as a sieve, now there is more dirt here, the shadows of these woven pieces interact with each other. The upper deck is woven by Rekha, you know, the imagined one?--- an 80 year old famous artist, who lives somewhere in the hills of Nepal like a recluse; her old body still strong enough to create taut nylon intersections: an homage to contemporary Nepali crafts. The bottom deck, woven by MS, you know, the other one?---becomes a conduit; explore different personhoods through the measurement of one; refracted ideas, intangible shadows, and dirt—a simple metaphor—all these elements come together to say: this is one way to make your way through life; we make this bed and we must lie on it too. And eventually, this one wish that keeps you up at night, will also come true.

Malashree Suvedi, born 1994 in Kathmandu, Nepal, is a poet, writer, textile artist, and painter. Her work explores dissociation, depression, creation, metalinguistics, language, relationship dynamics, the personal I, the multitudinous I, interconnection & loneliness, narrative histories, feminism, queerness, and post-colonialism. Part of her artistic praxis is derived from ideas of indebtedness and care even when dealing with difficult topics.

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Sieve---through