Lot 26

Mia Sandhu’s Silk and Baby’s Breath underscores the often contradictory ways that grief can manifest: as a deep disassociated void of devastation interspersed with pockets of relief and, if we are lucky, celebration.

Sandhu’s work asserts there is no proper one way to grieve. With a dash of pageantry (red manicured nails and dramatized posing) coupled with the inability to see the protagonist’s faces or expressions, the artist dismantles a singular, prescribed way to navigate loss—grief may not manifest in bouts of emotional outpouring; it may instead be a slow burn, a profound and sluggish coming to terms.