Prabhavathi Meppayil

Meppayil is an Indian artist who creates wall-mounted panels and sculptural installations that combine craft-based labor and process-based art, invoking artisanal legacies, affinities with Indian culture, and Minimalist and Postminimalist concepts. This book explores her past six years of output and echoes the subtle qualities of her work through its considered typography and design.

Format: Paperback / softback
Length: 136 pages
Publication date: 21 June 2022
Publisher: TeamLab

Meppayils is an artisanal practice that takes place in a contemporary South Asian context, engaging in a dialogue with Western modernism from the 1950s and 60s. Indian artist Prabhavathi Meppayil, born in 1965, creates wall-mounted panels and sculptural installations that showcase subtle gestures that enhance the inherent qualities of her materials and tools. Through her integration of craft-based labor and process-based art, Meppayil positions her work in a unique dialogue with a complex history of material and artistic production. This book delves into the past six years of Meppayil's output, echoing the subtle qualities of her work through its thoughtful typography and design. Semitransparent and colored pages are interspersed between sections to delineate different exhibitions and serve as another layer of materiality and contrast to the artworks. The layout of the inside pages balances the artworks and texts within a modernist grid, utilizing the proportions of the page to create harmony and breathing room around the works.

Weight: 953g
Dimension: 330 x 241 x 18 (mm)
ISBN-13: 9781948701419