Los Angeles-based painter Lily Stockman reconsiders the canon of Indian architecture in her large-scale paintings of India’s modern-day agricultural warehouses. Using grain elevators, silos, plinths and godowns as her unlikely subjects, Stockman depicts these structures as mechanisms for the measurement of production and consumption. As India’s population grows at a rate far beyond its food production capabilities, the grain silo – long an emblem of the American Midwest – is now a loaded symbol of sustainability in an India negotiating the consequences of import and export, the marriage of tradition with technology, and the balance between shortage and surplus.
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