Delusion of Grandeur
Vandana
2013
Mixed Media Sculpture 213.3×152.4cm
©Vandana The Artist
Courtesy Vandana and Stiftung Futur
DESCRIPTION
Part of the rituals of self series, Delusion of Grandeur is a decorated three-dimensional human figure with wings, hanging upside down like a bat, a golden cross on its face — the work depicts the human behaviour of performing religious rituals blindly, with great pomp and show but without awareness, forgetting the real idea of devotion and reducing ritual to spectacle. The title is a psychological term meaning a false impression of one’s own importance: the sculpture, nearly five feet tall, is hollow from inside, carrying the irony that the grandest self-image we construct is, at its core, empty.
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