An evening with artist aarti pillai, as she delves into the evolution of her creative practice and her time as a resident at Neiro Association for Expanding Arts.
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Aarti will unveil her latest series, Princ a večernice ~ di mana puteri selamat, exploring folkloric connections between ecological kinship in Czech and Malayan culture.
Aarti Meyappan Pillai (b. 2000, Singapore) is an artist and researcher working in sculptural installation, sound and new media. Her works are an invitation to intuit viscerally and occupy a space of curious tactility: drawn from memories of braiding grass, weaving fallen leaves, tracing patterns in sand, and playing amidst seafoam.
At the core of her practice is the principle of ramuan emphasising ecological reciprocity, care, and radical abundance, which involves a harmonious blend of natural elements and human effort. Aarti’s practice threads connections to nature, the ocean, the preservation of oral histories, femininity, and queerness as she is deeply influenced by her ancestral migration to the Malayan Archipelago. Her artistic works construct a liminal utopia where dreams and memory meld, drawing the viewer into a textured sensory experience as she seeks to address questions of origin and ecological kinship through emphasising the restoration of pre colonial folklore in her works.