Anjali Srinivasan

Artist Statement

I seek to erode the notion of a self-contained object.

My works exhibit unusual behaviour through a profound transformation of material or by activating their environment unexpectedly. I make responsive or collaborative entities : toys, tools, devices and installations – which are incomplete without human presence. They remain unfulfilled without human participation. To this end, I discover, access and restructure fundamental information that is held in the material, phenomenon or situation at hand – glass, spices, emergent technologies, tradition, human movement.

… A wearable, reflective, glass glove comes to life in the moment of a handshake…
… Bangles find new form through distortions of their circle during collaborations with its artisans,
… Puffy Glass, my porous glass innovation, looks to the human hand to cultivate plants on its charred, sterile surface….

In ways such as these, I develop new ways of thinking about the nature of glass and experiencing the world around us. I am interested not in what is, but what can be.