The powerful religious sites of Uluru and Kata Tjuta in the Northern Territory of Australia
have been of deep interest to the artist Anish Kapoor since he first visited them in the 1980s.
At Uluru he found a landscape of monumental scale which contained intimate and ritually
resonant sites. A landscape of hollows and voids which he has read as resonant of primal or
even original structure. Kapoor describes Uluru as an object with a perforated skin which lends
itself to mythic meaning.On his visit in 1991 Kapoor noted in his sketchbook a white bump on a
white wall. He later made the sculpture When I am Pregnant (1992) describing it as an object
in a state of becoming. The idea of the proto-object is central to Kapoor's work. In 2012
Kapoor returned to Uluru and Kata Tjuta. These two photographic volumes trace his journey. They
reveal through his eyes the artist's pre-occupation with form and pre-form skin and surface in
relation to deep interior.
