Kawita Vatanajyankur: May 2011

ABOUT KAWITA'S CURRENT PROJECT

My series of video work, performances and photographs are focused on the female's body and its relationship to different elements such as water, sand, wind and man-made materials such as plastic, paper, rubber and fabrics. The experimentations are developed to look at the action and reaction of the body in different spaces and environments, the transformation of the shape and form of the body that visually changed into a sculpture when affected physically from the elements and materials in order to examine the psychological, corporeal and cultural ways of viewing the human condition. The certain symbols contained in the videos are used to reflect the idea of violence, endurance, communication, as well as gender.

Tuesday, May 24, 2011

WALKING ON WATER EXHIBITION

"WALKING ON WATER"

by Kawita Vatanajyankur

Video installations and photographs exhibition

Date: May 24 - June 4, 2011

Venue: First Site Gallery, 344 Swanston Street, Melbourne, Australia.

Opening night : May 24, 2011.

5.30 - 7.30 pm

Artist Statement

Water expresses beauty, peacefulness and the idea of feminism. However, water becomes violent by human body actions, facial expression as well as effects from the reaction between two things- body and water, objects and water, body and fabrics. Kawita Vatanajyankur uses human bodies, including her own, as a mediu

m to experiment different water effects and document them in videos and photographs. Each of her performances aim to reveal the reaction of human body, how it visually appears in different times, light and place. By the use of water and fabrics with human bodies, shapes and forms of the body always change and sometimes represent an idea of struggle, anxiety and lost by the uncomfortable atmosphere.

The opening night