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About Anish Kapoor

Anish Kapoor manoeuvres between vastly different scales, across numerous series of work. Immense PVC skins, stretched or deflated; concave or convex mirrors whose reflections attract and swallow the viewer; recesses carved in stone and pigmented so as to disappear: these voids and protrusions summon up deep-felt metaphysical polarities of presence and absence, concealment and revelation.

Forms turn themselves inside out, womb-like, and materials are not painted but impregnated with color, as if to negate the idea of an outer surface, inviting the viewer to the inner reaches of the imagination. Kapoor’s geometric forms from the early 1980s, for example, rise up from the floor and appear to be made of pure pigment, while the viscous, blood-red wax sculptures from the last ten years – kinetic and self-generating – ravage their own surfaces and explode the quiet of the gallery environment. There are resonances with mythologies of the ancient world – Indian, Egyptian, Greek and Roman – and with modern times.

About The Helen Bamber Foundation

The Helen Bamber Foundation is a Human Rights Charity. They give Survivors of trafficking and torture the strength to move on. With an all-encompassing care for the whole journey, Survivors have the dignity, strength and freedom to live their lives to the fullest. Their care ensures Survivors are free, healthy, safe, are protected from re-victimization, detention and poverty. Their care guides survivors to recover following their experiences of trafficking and torture. Their care supports Survivors for their whole journey enabling constant and sustained recovery.

Their specialist teams of professionals provide therapy, medical advice, legal protection, housing and welfare, counter trafficking and help with integration into the community. This all-encompassing care ensures that Survivors heal, reclaim their independence and start living fully.