Varsha Nair

Sharing their experience of the edge within everyday normality and loneliness within the teeming cities they live in, Varsha Nair (Bangkok) and Tejal Shah (Bombay) developed Encounter(s) - a series of live interventions presented in different locations, each time for the duration of half an hour or more.

The artists’ bodies are swathed in a shell of white embroidered fabric. The straitjacket exoskeleton is joined at the arms forming an outstretched bridge, to span the distance between being connected and being able to touch. Inserted into, wrapped around, drawing lines or punctuating architectural spaces they inscribe a site, a location; to be distilled as experiences or visual notes even, by people who encounter them.