Kiran Kulkarni

1978, Hubli, India

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This is a humble attempt to create revelation, to incite change, to see new, to poke our conditioning, and to make space for a conversation. I try to explore the contexts, landscapes, words, no words, objects, stories, technology pieces, images that intervene in my life, alter its situation, its spirit, and see how it trickles down naturally in its form. I hope to confront the community with nature's omnipresence, creating new spaces for sensorial and social experiences. 

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With my work, I hope to evoke and preserve the aura and simplicity of the situation, its conditions. This altered relationship between the public and the instance of art has influenced my turn towards site-specific, experience-oriented, and sensorial attempts. In this practice, it is still possible to ‘safeguard’ the aura because reproduction is virtually impossible. The only way to experience is to experience, so to speak, the ‘original’. The role of intervention is no longer to form imaginary and utopian realities but to actually be ways of living and models of action within the existing real. The intervention rather than being an encounter between a viewer and an object produces intersubjective encounters. Through these encounters, I hope to evoke meanings and senses that are elaborated collectively, rather than in the space of individual consumption.

 

I interrogate the spirit, context, and its endless perceptions having been exposed to various deviations from existential reality, influenced by the Indian way of doing things juxtaposed on modern forces.
My work stem from ceaseless inquisitions realized through research whilst leveraging his background education as an architect, product designer formulating balanced compositions of art, design, and literature that enshrine all my thoughts and inquiries.

 

You see, when we use words (like above!) it tends to mean many things :-). That's precisely what I like to explore, make it satirical, play, observe, and enjoy what I can see or not see.