San Francisco, California.- The Yerba Buena Center for the Arts if pleased to present “The Matter Within: New Contemporary Art of India” on view until January 19th 2012. “The Matter Within” features photography, sculpture and video by artists of India living inside the country as well as in the diaspora. Inspired by material culture, literature, spirituality and social and political aspects of the history of the South Asian region, the exhibition is organized around three thematic threads that resonate from contemporary India—embodiment, the politics of communicative bodies and the imaginary. Of particular interest are the artistic practices that either incorporate these concepts or operate within a gap between these rich thematic categories. Whereas sculpture and painting have a long history within both sacred and secular traditions of Indian art in recent years, photography and video have emerged as significant media as well.