SAN FRANCISCO, CA.- Yerba Buena Center for the Arts presents The Matter Within: New Contemporary Art of India, an exhibition of sculpture, photography and video by artists of India, living inside the country and in the diaspora. The works in this exhibition operate at the intersection of a triad of concepts—embodiment, the politics of communicative bodies, and the imaginary. It is through embodiment of the empirical functions of our senses that we are able to understand culture. Since our bodily senses focus our perceptions, they become the basis for communicating our unique experiences, which are shaped, in part, by how political structures intersect with our lives. This in turn affects the social notion of “the imaginary,” a term which relates to “the other.” The imaginary is linked to desire and subjectivity, which is central to personal and collective agency as it directs us towards