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About this work

This print series shows weird, lumpy figures floating in rough, grainy black-and-white. The shapes feel both human and broken, like clay left out in the rain. Huma Bhabha stacks and scratches the surfaces, so the prints look like they’ve been dug up from somewhere deep. She mixes old etching tricks with raw, hand-worked marks. The sixteen photogravures and two woodcuts feel handmade and heavy, not slick like most museum prints. It’s as if she’s dragging ancient carvings into the now. If you like this gritty mix, try Huma Bhabha.