Aquasaurus | Jitish Kallat

  • Jitish Kallat, Aquasaurus, 2008
  • Jitish Kallat, Aquasaurus, 2008
  • Jitish Kallat, Aquasaurus, 2008

Aquasaurus
25 October - 20 December 2008

Jitish Kallat’s installation ‘Aquasaurus’, at the Sherman Contemporary Art Foundation, Sydney, is a monumental seven-metre long skeletal sculpture of a water-tanker morphing to become prehistoric creature that personifies the radical transformation of Indian city life. Resembling a prized natural-history museum piece, Aquasaurus – with its grinning mouth, menacing teeth and interior void – is both inviting and repulsive.