Janhavi Khemka | Sapna

£5,475.99
Mix Media Installation: Woodcut Print, Stop-Motion Animation Using Woodcut Prints, Plywood Platform, Tv And Vibratory Device.
Edition of 5
Dimensions (WxH): 67.73 x 38.1cm

Born in Varanasi, India, Santiniketan - based artist Janhavi Khemka approaches acoustics through woodcut printmaking and experimental installations composed of animation, sound, performance, and vibratory material. Growing up, Khemka’s late mother encouraged her to speak in Hindi, resulting in an emphasis on lip reading in a hearing-speaking world. Shortly after she lost her mother to cancer, Khemka searched for ways to imprint her experience of the ‘real’ world. Activating her sensory capacities through touch, taste, smell, and the visual, Khemka attended Santiniketan, interjecting a lineage of largely male master printmakers with conceptual wit and an astute awareness of the limits of printmaking. Khemka moved to Chicago to complete her second master’s, finding herself gravitating toward animation, sound design, and performance, activating works on paper through sound and bodily intervention. Developing immersive works that splice together the two and three-dimensional, she invites her viewers to locate their inner assumptions and aural subjectivities within the strange and otherness. Slipping between imposed identities like ‘disabled,’ ‘marginalized,’ ‘immigrant,’ Khemka transcends ineffectual terms, attuning herself instead to the possibility of listening to materials she works within. For her, it becomes a fictional necessity to ensure her politics are not foreclosed nor erased, theoretically and conceptually.
Mix Media Installation: Woodcut Print, Stop-Motion Animation Using Woodcut Prints, Plywood Platform, Tv And Vibratory Device.
Edition of 5
Dimensions (WxH): 67.73 x 38.1cm

Born in Varanasi, India, Santiniketan - based artist Janhavi Khemka approaches acoustics through woodcut printmaking and experimental installations composed of animation, sound, performance, and vibratory material. Growing up, Khemka’s late mother encouraged her to speak in Hindi, resulting in an emphasis on lip reading in a hearing-speaking world. Shortly after she lost her mother to cancer, Khemka searched for ways to imprint her experience of the ‘real’ world. Activating her sensory capacities through touch, taste, smell, and the visual, Khemka attended Santiniketan, interjecting a lineage of largely male master printmakers with conceptual wit and an astute awareness of the limits of printmaking. Khemka moved to Chicago to complete her second master’s, finding herself gravitating toward animation, sound design, and performance, activating works on paper through sound and bodily intervention. Developing immersive works that splice together the two and three-dimensional, she invites her viewers to locate their inner assumptions and aural subjectivities within the strange and otherness. Slipping between imposed identities like ‘disabled,’ ‘marginalized,’ ‘immigrant,’ Khemka transcends ineffectual terms, attuning herself instead to the possibility of listening to materials she works within. For her, it becomes a fictional necessity to ensure her politics are not foreclosed nor erased, theoretically and conceptually.