Autosaurus Triopus

2007
Resin, paint, steel, brass
116 x 53 x 66 in./ 295 x 135 168 cm.

Autosaurus Tripous reimagines the auto-rickshaw, a slow and unsteady staple of Indian traffic snarls, as a fossil or a skeleton. It is the first in a series of sculptural works by the artist where vehicles are rendered as uncanny vertebrates from an indeterminate time in the past or the future.