Bharatesh GD’s solo show in Bengaluru cuts through layers of pain

A jaw full of teeth protruding from difficult angles, chopped fingers marked with voting ink, skewered tongues, and eyeballs at unexpected corners, filled with disdain and disapproval, constantly watching.

That is what you encounter at Pain Corporation of India, a solo show by Bengaluru-based Bharatesh GD. However, the artist’s work is not a display of the macabre but goes beyond a physical interpretation of pain to depict, “how belief is engineered, pain normalised and dissent managed”.