Pramila Lama (Nepal)
Visual Artist
Pramila Lama is a visual artist from Nepal. A post graduate in portraiture, Tribhuwan University, Kirtipur. She has been active in performance art since 2014 and it’s very important to Pramila because it is a way of expressing own self and an abstraction of how she feels about life. Her works are like in the state of phantasmagoria where there is a mix of real and imagined elements. Her practice pays attention to gender inequality, memory, identity, human relationships and shared narratives. Also her works portray the undeniable belief and the blind practice upon the women which are still existing as social practice. She had participated in several group exhibitions and workshops in different countries. She has been tattooing as a professional artist since 2016. She holds appreciation from different art organizations.
55 pieces of purity
By Pramila Lama, Nepal
- For me Nude is pure and natural.
- For a range of complex social reasons, thoughts of our own body have been distorted.
- This plain white dress is the metaphoric symbol of body and white itself the purity.
- The words ‘nude’ stitch with red thread in different language of the world which is a stitch as like something design/pattern, which is the metaphoric representation of shell/cover of that white dress (body).
- Separated each and every part of that body (dress), which has its own name and importance.
- The whole body itself nude but after dissecting the body then it becomes only a part.
- The red thread and the background is the metaphor of a life, blood and the focus. As a performance artist for me, the body is a main element to express my thoughts, so whenever I think about ‘nude’ all of these six points are roaming in my mind, then I took my white dress from the previous performance as a metaphor for my own body to understand the nudity.
Title : 55 pieces of purity
Size : 60” X 31” inches
Medium : C print ( thread, nail, hanger,cloth)
Year : 2020
