HIEROGLYPHICS | Prima Jalichandra-Sakuntabhai

Hieroglyphics is a collection of objects and gestures that arise where language fails. In analyzing Walt Whitman’s use of the poetic image of blades of grass, Lewis Hyde describes how “Natural objects - living things in particular - are a language we only faintly remember. It is as if creation had been dismembered sometime in the past and all things are limbs we have lost that will make us whole if only we can recall them. Whitman’s sympathetic perception of objects is a remembrance of the wholeness of things.” (“A Draft of Whitman” p174, The Gift, Lewis Hyde, 1999).

Artist Bio:
Prima Jalichandra-Sakuntabhai (b. Bangkok, Thailand) is a transdisciplinary artist, curator and art worker, currently based in St Paul, Minnesota. They received a Visual Arts Degree from the Ecole des Beaux Arts de Nantes Metropole and a License in Film Studies at the Sorbonne Nouvelle-Paris 3. They hold a BFA from the School of the Arts Institute of Chicago and a MFA from the California College of the Arts, San Francisco.

Gallery Hours:
February 14, 15, 28, March 1, 3-6 pm and by appointment

Image: Hieroglyphics - The Apotheosis of Antinous, 2025, Glass etchings, panels of 8x10 and 11x14, custom brass display