Description

Cast in bronze, the humble cow dung cake is transfigured into a relic of resilience—its rough surface echoing the labor of unseen hands. The sculpture preserves the imprint of survival, elevating a quotidian object into a monument of socio-economic truth. Subodh Gupta’s treatment is both stark and reverent, confronting caste and class through the language of material permanence. What was once fuel for fire becomes fuel for reflection, burning quietly in the viewer’s conscience.