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Vijay Masharani (b. 1995, lives in New York and Belmont, USA) works with video and drawing. His works test the connections between small gestures and complex systems, asking what forces are at play, and what escapes our perception if we focus solely on details or only see the whole. With patterns that are in a constant state of transmutation, Masharani attempts to analyse this interplay, highlighting the role of the contingent throughout his compositions: across the duration of a video or throughout the production period of a series of drawings.
His videos are not the result of fixed planning, but rather emerge as montages of recorded, hand-drawn and digitally rendered material he collects on an ongoing basis. Emphasizing post-production as a significant moment of intervention, he regards each media fragment as one that could potentially be combined again, differently. He flays, spoils and stretches them to fit them together, resulting in loops in which the traces of his...More
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Vijay Masharani (b. 1995, lives in New York and Belmont, USA) works with video and drawing. His works test the connections between small gestures and complex systems, asking what forces are at play, and what escapes our perception if we focus solely on details or only see the whole. With patterns that are in a constant state of transmutation, Masharani attempts to analyse this interplay, highlighting the role of the contingent throughout his compositions: across the duration of a video or throughout the production period of a series of drawings.
His videos are not the result of fixed planning, but rather emerge as montages of recorded, hand-drawn and digitally rendered material he collects on an ongoing basis. Emphasizing post-production as a significant moment of intervention, he regards each media fragment as one that could potentially be combined again, differently. He flays, spoils and stretches them to fit them together, resulting in loops in which the traces of his...More