Drawing Worlds #1 - FUNGI ⇄ FIRMAMENT - Drawings from the Field by Rohini Devasher
SEA CONVERSATIONS
MONSOON 2024-25
DRAWING WORLDS
The Monsoon 2024 SEA Conversations looks at, and looks to various practices of drawing - here an expanded visual practice that gets produced through not only modes of seeing and observing, but also reading, listening, writing, talking - those that aid the process of critical interrogation and interpretation, that engage with the tactile and palpable - bodies and measures and quantifiable entities, as well as intangible aspects like social relationships, sensorial experiences, memories and meaning, temporalities and active imagination. These practices are set up as various horizons on the contemporary drawing landscape. The conversation with them is meant to articulate for us new questions and methods of seeing and drawing, in turn, newer forms of engagement towards a fresher politics of participation with our visual worlds.
session 1
FUNGI ⇄ FIRMAMENT
Drawings from the Field
by Rohini Devasher
Devasher is an artist and an amateur astronomer. For the SEA conversation, Devasher will share drawing based work that maps the complexities of ecology, cosmology, and technology viewed through the twin lenses of wonder and the strange/horror. At the core of this is a recognition of the entanglement of relationships in the natural world, but also of the deep strangeness created by their collisions and fusion. The theoretical grounding of her work draws from the history of science, astronomy, philosophy and speculative fiction.
ABOUT
Devasher’s work has been shown at the Minnesota Street Project Foundation, San Francisco (2024), Gallery Wendi Norris, San Francisco (2024), Kunsthalle Bern, (2024), Museum Catharijneconvent Utrecht, Netherlands (2024), Museum Tai Kwun Contemporary (2023), Collegium Helveticum, Zurich (2023), Warehouse 421, Abu Dhabi (2023), Rubin Museum of Art in New York (2021–22); the Sea Art Festival in Busan, South Korea (2021); the Vienna Academy of Fine Arts (2021); Kunst Leuven City Festival in Belgium (2021); Sharjah Biennial 14(2019) among others.
Devasher is the first Indian artist to be honored by Deutsche Bank as 'Artist of the Year' for 2024-25. In 2023 she dual resident in Arts at CERN (European Organization for Nuclear Research) in Geneva, Switzerland, and at the International Centre for Theoretical Sciences (ICTS-TIFR) in Bengaluru, India.
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on Friday
5th July 2024
@ 6:00 PM IST
The event is partly supported by Urban Centre Mumbai.
It is free and open to everyone across the world.