Rohini Devasher trained as a painter and printmaker and works in a variety of media, including sound, video, prints, and large site-specific drawings. Her current body of work is a collection of “strange” terrains, constructed by observing, recording, fictionalizing, and re-imagining objects and spaces that exist at the interface between science, nature and culture, perception and production. Rohini’s work has been shown at the Dhaka Art Summit 2016, the 5th Fukuoka Asian Art Triennale 2014, and the Kochi-Muziris Biennale 2012, and in the Wanås Foundation, Sweden, the Courtauld Institute of Art, London, and the Zacheta National Gallery of Art, Warsaw, among others. She was an artist in residence at Khoj, New Delhi, in 2015; Fukuoka Asian Art Museum, 2014; the Glasgow Print Studio, 2014; Metal Culture, the UK, 2013; and the Max Planck Institute for the History of Science, Berlin, from March to June 2012. Projects in 2016 include the Artists’ Film International at the Whitechapel Gallery (London), the Singapore Art and Science Museum, the ZKM (Karlsruhe), and the Spencer Museum of Art (Kansas), as well as participating in the Anthropocene Campus: The Technosphere Issue at the Haus der Kulturen der Welt (HKW) in Berlin in April. Rohini was the recipient of the Forbes India Young Contemporary Artist of the Year award in 2014, the Skoda Breakthrough Artist award in 2013, and the Sarai Associate Fellowship in 2010. She is interested in encounters between the human and nonhuman, “natural” and “technological,” where intersecting patterns between the two are made visible. How has our experience of wonder changed? Where once the sublime resided in spaces devoid of human encroachment, could we now say that it is in those spaces—sites of extraordinary astronomical and archaeological strangeness—where (through technology) we try to understand our connection to this planet? For more on projects that help articulate Rohini’s point of entry into the Anthropocene—and specifically the Technosphere—visit her website.

http://www.rohinidevasher.com