Vessels, Bodies, Thresholds

Pooja Pawaskar investigates the body as a threshold between containment and autonomy, intimacy and exposure. Working across wood and clay, she explores the vessel as both object and metaphor: a form defined by its capacity to contain, yet still itself when it resists its prescribed function. Through removal and accumulation, bodily forms emerge without representing the body directly, asking what we are expected to hold, what we choose to refuse, and who determines the boundaries of a body.