Body Language is Sanker’s second solo exhibition, which takes on an expressionistic figurative style, unabashedly influenced by post-modern European movement.
Sanker features the female body as his subject. His bold and intense paintings of the female nude are rendered in distressed brush strokes, reminding one of the raw meat-texture of Francis Bacon figures. The compositions are provocative, demanding the viewers’ reflection and interpretation. His powerful female nudes, like Earth goddesses, are confidently gestured and juxtaposed against backgrounds of cleverly configured spaces. With borders of carpet edges, they form subtle compositions of organic and architectural spaces. The figures are then layered with metaphorical images that reference to states of mind or signifying the male gaze.
Visual art patron, Bingley Sim writes of Sanker’s creative outpouring as a social comment on the ‘objectification’ of women and of the artist’s wish to bring into public discourse the ensued drama of male-female encounter and imbalance.
Body Language shows Sanker as a potent and dynamic creative artist, eager to explore new territories with each new series which he undertakes with confidence and gusto.
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