Snehta Residency is pleased to present a show by current artists-in-residence, Ajit Chauhan from San Francisco, Candela Bado from Uruguay who is based in The Hague and Dimitra Kousteridou, who lives and works in Amsterdam. The exhibition is a map to decipher "materials" the three artists encountered during the period they stayed and worked in Athens. A handbook - in narrative form - for the deconstruction of objecthood.
Ajit Chauhan’s work is characterized by slow, minimalist, often repetitive gestures. He has a preference for working with modest materials. One body of work that will be shown was made by erasing selected portions of record album covers. They are housed inside crates that function as architectural models of the Art Deco apartment buildings in and around Kypseli. Another body of work is a series of textiles that are unwoven, a process of removing material to find an inner essence or structure within the material.
Candela Bado is interested in how objects are in-between things that exist both under the realm of the intuitive and the cognitive. She is inspired by folkloric narratives that question established systems of knowledge and include imagination as an important quality in the becoming of identity by reconsidering the typology of the object and its relation to the subject. She is curious in addressing the intuitive wisdom of the viewer, attempting to create an encounter between the two.
Dimitra Kousteridou works on site-specific projects and noise improvisation, researching time-based acts as well as installations and relational works involving diverse communities. The core of her interest lies in deconstructing the visual identity of subjects /objects and infusing them with new acoustic character, reinforcing the physical, aural and aesthetic qualities of their soundscape. This often leads in an interdisciplinary format including ephemeral events, interactive handmade synthesizers or fragments of objects, enacting sound as a central element. One can picture the placed situations in her performances to be continuous relationships between different elements of a network that includes bodies, memories and experiences.