PORCELAIN 2024​

In Tanmaya Bingham’s mixed media on panel series Porcelain she vitrifies her subjects by depicting them in an unsettling and vulnerable state. Each colored pencil line and paint stroke places emphasis on the human capacity to be absent and present simultaneously, especially when tested through the heat and pressures of life. Invariably these artworks exhibit the duality of ‘true nature’ through the subjects’ outward and confrontational gazes juxtaposed against their withdrawn unclothed and exposed bodies. The faces are meticulously rendered to bring forth hyper-realistic details and socially perceived flaws to help garner a greater acceptance of an unfiltered version of self. This is further emphasized by the stark white background and Bingham’s proclivity for proportional distortion of subjects’ oversized heads protruding from fragile torsos. Through these vehement portrayals Bingham asks us to face that which makes us most raw.