This publication accompanies Sreshta Rit Premnath’s 2025 exhibition Overbody at Bennington College’s Usdan Gallery and extends his exploration of interstitial spaces between bodies and places as sites of care, responsibility, and political action. It features movement scores by Mina Nishimura and Kota Yamazaki, created in response to Premnath’s work and presented alongside his preparatory drawings. The book also includes a conversation between the artist and Usdan Gallery Director Anne Thompson.

Through sculptures, paintings, and wxeavings, Overbody examines the instability of borders and the forces that give them form. Central to this body of work are Premnath’s “slumps” and the concept of the “overbody”—an invisible pressure that shapes and disciplines the body, which the sculptures resist through precarious and incomplete gestures. His use of gray as a color of potentiality draws on Kisho Kurokawa’s idea of “Rikyu Grey” and resonates with the philosophies of Butoh.

Published by Usdan Gallery,
Bennington College, Bennington, VT
Designed and edited by Sreshta Rit Premnath and Anne Thompson
Risograph printing at Bennington College, 2025

ISBN: 978-1-7323605-7-0