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Description	Picture of Alwar Balasubramaniam's sculpture Body as Shell (2011-2015) at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York in 2022. A sandstone sculpture of a human figure crumpled on the floor, made to look as if it were a body suit made from the skin of a human.
Author or copyright owner	Original work: Alwar Balasubramaniam Depiction: 19h00s
Source (WP:NFCC#4)	Own work
Date of publication	Original work: 2011-2015 Depiction: 2 July 2022
Use in article (WP:NFCC#7)	Alwar Balasubramaniam
Purpose of use in article (WP:NFCC#8)	To support encyclopedic discussion of this work in this article. The illustration is specifically needed to support the following point(s): Key example of artist's sculpture exploring skin/body, for critical analysis of the artist's style
Not replaceable with free media because (WP:NFCC#1)	Any derivative work based upon the artwork would be a copyright violation, so creation of a free image is not possible.
Minimal use (WP:NFCC#3)	Single usage, low resolution
Respect for commercial opportunities (WP:NFCC#2)	The use of a low resolution image of the artwork will not impact the commercial viability of the art.
Other information	Original work: Alwar Balasubramaniam Body as Shell, 2011-2015, Synthetic sandstone (Artist's proof from an edition of 2 + AP), 6 1/4 × 20 5/8 × 33 in. (15.9 × 52.4 × 83.8 cm); weight: 96 lb. (43.5 kg), Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, Purchase, Dipti Mathur, Asha Jadeja and Sunil Hirani Gifts, 2022, Accession number: 2022.164^[1] Depiction: The author of the image has released the photographic work under a free license, or it is in the public domain: This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License. Attribution: 19h00s
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^ "Body as Shell". MetMuseum. Metropolitan Museum of Art. Archived from the original on 23 July 2022. Retrieved 23 July 2022.

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[1] "Body as Shell". MetMuseum. Metropolitan Museum of Art. Archived from the original on 23 July 2022. Retrieved 23 July 2022.

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