Varsha Nair

The contemporary landscape is constantly changing and being re-defined. As towns and cities become gentrified it increases displacement and heightens a sense of isolation in the population. As long as a nation can portray a happy and glittering image while glitches in its society remain concealed then on surface all seems to be in control.

In Shifts, Varsha Nair presents her own, and collaborative and curated works that include mixed media, multimedia, and a site-specific installation, spanning from 2000 until the present.

Like layered palimpsests, the video projections, drawings and photographs address the illusive “/” space, the space in-between that bridges and separates, acting as a divider but simultaneously as a connecting point. Tracing flux, loss and uncertainty, the works presented here deconstruct, reconstruct and map different realities both tangible and abstract, and private and communal.

Explored also is the bond between built spaces and memory of places that once were significant to people inhabiting them but now seem ghostly, covered up or completely erased and forgotten, becoming blind spots in contemporary society. Impermanence, ephemerality, and transience are evoked to tell stories, bringing places of the past into the present to remind and reclaim some of their previous integrity and keep it visible.

Works shown at WTF Gallery, Bangkok

Erasure

Site-specific installation. 2018

Hand made paper, printed photos.

Woven Landscapes

Series of six works 2012 - 2018

Weaves created with drawings, newspaper, maps and printed material.

Wish List

Photographs and wall drawing.

Conversation extract from January 2015 from Monday 2 Monday, a collaborative project by Varsha Nair and Lena Eriksson since 2011. Project archive: http://monday2monday.tumblr.com/

Point 33 Ether

Video installation. 2000

Ctrl+Shift

Printout of Issue # 7, July 2007 of Ctrl+P Journal of Contemporary Art, an online publication.

Issue editor: Varsha Nair

https://www.ctrlp--artjournal.org/

/ Space

Publication. Images and audio. 2004 - 2005

The project was published in Namdee Publishing Station’s VER Magazine, issue number 3 (2005), with the images printed as an A5 booklet insert and the sound presented on an accompanying audio CD.

CD running time 27:35

Contributors:

Ashim Ahluwalia HERE / ELSEWHERE

Barbara Blasin TEN ROUND SPOONS

Hito Steyerl LAND OF SMILES

Karla Sachse HOUSE MOTHER

Liz Bradshaw ARCHIVE FEVER

Marina Grzinic Mauhler / Aina Smid ON THE FLIES OF THE MARKET PLACE

Maja Bajevic HOROSCOPE

Michael Shaowanasai

Milica Tomic

Neha Choksi MAKING MONSOON AT SUNSET ON A SANTA MONICA ROOFTOP

Renata Poljak DID SHE FALL OR WAS SHE PUSHED

Richard Tsao LA LA LAND

Sanja Ivekovic

Sandra Sterle HOLIDAY

Sejla Kameric HERE

Virginia Hilyard IN THE DEPTHS

Varsha Nair

/ Space

Outdoor projection of still images. 2000 – 2018

Contributors:

Chitti Kasemkitvatana

Jerome Ming

Karla Sachse

Lena Eriksson

Sharon Chin

Virginia Hilyard

Varsha Nair

Works shown at Bridge Artspace, Bangkok.

Somtam Nomad. 

2-screen projection. Varsha Nair and Sakarit Gunkan.

Spin.

Video projected on Sathorn Unique Tower 9ghost building)

The Gap.

Installed in the alley way by the gallery leading to Sathorn Unique Building.