Rahul & Gunjan Collective
Rahul Jain and Gunjan Arora seamlessly meld their expertise with artistic innovation, leading a dynamic team/collaborative known as Threadarte.
Threadarte, which began as an experiment in 2004, to deal with textile waste became the artist Rahul and Gunjan’s unique language that has only evolved in forms and matured in its sensibility with time. The artists as a practice collect and sort waste yarns from various sources and integrate them through manual process creating forms. They incorporate coloured and textured yarns, strips of artfully cut fabric, metallic threads and metals like steel, to create painterly installations. They delve in both abstract and figurative compositions and often blend metal filaments to add dimensions to their works. Over the years, these unique creations in this completely new medium became limitless and expansive, transcending the definitions of mediums already explored. Their works serve as a testament to the transformative power of stray threads, interweaving memories into renewed narrations and stories.
Their art has in fact kick-started a movement where textile, fashion and yarn industries have started to contribute their excess/waste yarns, thus making this a sustainable and environmentally friendly art. Being mindful of their role as artists, they have conscientiously cultivated a sustainable art practice, meticulously selecting materials and sources to avoid any negative environmental impact.
Siri Devi Khandavilli
Siri Devi Khandavilli is an Indian artist originally from Bengaluru and now based out of New York, works across painting, performance, video and installation to create visual art rooted in traditional Indian techniques and yet transcends cultural specificity to hint at more significant commentaries about the nature of the present. She employs various methods, processes, and diverse approaches by co-opting the language of sculpture to painting, printmaking to sculpture, and so forth.
Siri wants her Art to be timeless yet visual articulations of contemporary experience. She is interested in global cultural migrations, the perception and history of the femme body in art, and how tradition transmutes across time and place. In her creative pursuits, she seeks to engage with an expansive range of influences, encompassing politics, literature, cinema, mythologies, and music. She is not confined to any particular medium, finding freedom in expressing her ideas through various channels as she deems fit.
Seema Kohli
Seema Kohli (b. 1960) is a multi-disciplinary artist working through the imagination of mythical and fantastical worlds from a eco feminist eye. Engaging with visual and performative mediums, Kohli explores the themes of beauty and sensuality echoed in philosophy and spirituality studies across civilization. Her work primarily celebrates the cosmic feminine and its relationship to forces of creation and destruction. There is a focused engagement with the concept of Hiranayagarbha or The Golden Womb; she attempts to create new artistic identities by reshaping belongings, bringing the past and the present into a dialogue through a process of decay, hybridization and transformation.
