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 BIO 

VINITA KHANNA

My works deploy a language of visual force across disciplines, including sculpture, painting, installation, collage, poetry, and photography.  
My long-standing interest in Eastern philosophy (namely Advaita Vedanta), cosmology, and the environment has led to a quasi gesamtkunstwerk practice in which the artwork is the result of deep meditation on the human relationship to all the three disciples. These themes in my work, are expressed using poetic language to describe how the body/mind experience relates to our immediate environment and the wider cosmos.

My research has led me to collaborate with scientists and environmentalists. I have developed several installations works often including an interactive process, conveying the urgency of the continuing environmental destruction. Despite the mythology of 'more is better' becoming slowly defunct, we are still very much tied to the growth concept as a solution to all socio economic dilemma.   

This enquiry  tries to organise the ever-expanding inflation of images, information, and the material/stuff, through collage, drawing, and sometimes three-dimensional objects, bringing new meaning to the lack of coherence. The rearrangement of discarded materials  proposes new alliances in which the object is no longer separate from the body but part of a larger continued space. A sort of viscous mesh in which the parts  become bigger and as zoetic as the whole.  

We may have mastered the superficial space of our immediate environment but remain oblivious to the intimacy of its complexities. The question continually being asked is of perceived reality and the meanings of its materiality and nature. I am concerned with the possibilities of where human perception and experience really transpire and how we can  lay to rest, many of the mythologies created by minds trapped in isms, including the technologically led capitalist consumer society of today.    

 

 

Main / Solo Art Exhibitions

Royal Geographic Society- Installation DREAMING CUTTLEFISH  -2022

Delta Wharf Studios- Climate and Conflict- 2019

https://www.dazeddigital.com/art-photography/article/46233/1/contra-its-freezing-in-la-exhibition-art-activist-conversations-climate-change 

Somerset House- Kings College- Light Late 2019

Imperial College Exhibition Road Festival May 2018

Greenovate Festival - London  October 2018 

Natural History Museum 2016- Colour and Vision

Tate Modern, London 2015 -Light & Dark Matters 

Natural History, Museum 2015 -Science Uncovered 

Science Museum, London, 2015      

Royal Society London, 2015- International Year of Light  

Gallery Escape, New Delhi, 2013 

Oriental Art Fair, Piccadilly, London 2010

Air Gallery London 2009

Palace Wharf Studios 2008

Art@42 gallery London 2006 ( Solo)

Indar Pasricha Gallery London 2006 (Solo)

Tehelka, Asia House London 2006

Norwich Gallery, Norwich, East 2005

Branchville Gallery Connecticut, 2004

Klink and Bank Art Space, Iceland, 2004

Victoria & Albert Museum, London -Affordable Housing 2004

The Millennium Gallery, London, September 2003

Message to India, British Council, Delhi, Bombay, Jaipur 2002 

Exhibition, Mare Street Studios, London, 2001

Lift Gallery London, 2000 ( Solo)

Goldsmith's MA final, London, 1999

Centre Point Gallery, London, 1999

Angel Spaces, London, 1989

Touring Exhibition Ikon Gallery, UK, 1989-1990

Ikon Gallery, Birmingham, 1989

Gallery at the United Nations, Geneva, 1987

Gallery Chausse Coqs, Geneva, 1987

Maison Fiasco, Geneva, 1986

Centre D’art Contemporain, Geneva, 1986

Sri Nakhariwirot University, (Solo), Bangkok, 1981

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