FRESH FACES
DIVAAGAR
Divaagar, ‘Soft Salves’, 2021, website (photography, text, video). Presented for Singapore Heritage Festival 2021. Image courtesy of the artist.
After the lull caused by the circuit breaker, it has been busy. There were a lot of opportunities that I received thanks to initiatives such as ‘Proposals for Novel Ways of Being’ where I was able to find new paths in producing works digitally. Learning to adapt in this flux between digital and physical exhibitions has been conducive for creating new trajectories in my practice. It has given me more freedom in creating thorough narratives and characters within works that I had shown at Singapore Art Week earlier this year. I have just produced a web-based work for Singapore Heritage Festival 2021, entitled ‘Soft Salves’, that utilises the “influencer” as a new model for oral histories in the spread of Ayurvedic practices and knowledge. After this accelerated period of exhibition and artwork production, I am interested in slowing down to develop long-term projects.
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