Kawita Vatanajyankur

In her practice, Kawita Vatanajyankur body is a conduit for those affected by the blind consumerism that fuels today’s society. She transforms her body into a site upon which issues of labour, feminism, oppression and consumerism are interrogated and challenged. For Vatanajyankur, extreme physical endurance offers a way to free herself from her mind: a mechanism to lose her sense of being.

In her performative videos, Vatanajyankur undertakes various repetitive and strenuous tasks, deliberately objectifies herself into mechanical or domestic tools as she pushes her body to its limits as a testament for human endurance and resilience. The luminous colours in Vatanajyankur’s work are distinctive of the artist’s aesthetic, which and tap into a globalized and digitally networked visual language of consumption and instant gratification.

The dark humor and undercurrents of violence that her work deliver bring a universality and contemporary currency to the trajectory of art.

Kawita Vatanajyankur will be presenting her works at Nova Contemporary.