On floor:
Pillars of Salt
Installation. 2025
Unfired red clay treated with sea salt, charcoal, sandalwood paste, loess, wood ash, baking soda, copper-vinegar solution, coffee grounds, glaze, dandelions, and marigolds, wood, unknown metal; digital prints on backlight media; air pump, vinyl tubing, hose clamp, electric toy pipe organ, electric tanpura, taal, gungurus, contact microphones, single-board microcontroller, distortion pedal, audio receiver, speaker, and cables; wood, soundproof padding
Projected video:
Fugue State
2025. Video, color, sound, 10 min.
Video from BBC; Audio from a radio interview with Shanta Rao with Bhaskar Yesupriya, August 3, 1967. An All India Radio, Bangalore Production © and ℗ 2021.
On monitor:
Shikar
2025. Video, color, sound, 10 min.
Featuring excerpts from The Victoria & Albert Museum’s conservation assessment of Tipu’s Tiger, which is in the museum’s collection; expert playing “Rule, Britannia!” on the instrument, 2019; Lord Reading, the Viceroy of India, goes on a tiger hunt in Gwalior, India from the Reuters archive, 1923.