Shanti Gelmi

Absent Presence III, Cinefoil, ink and paint on board.

Shanti Gelmi uses a multidisciplinary approach to explore the themes of connection, identity and behaviour. Each work’s development is rooted in the concept she is interested in revealing and the medium and form is dictated by how it can be best understood.

Most recently, her meditative practice of questioning, drawing, cutting and making has yielded a unique visual language representing biological, environmental, cultural, societal and emotional linkages of experience and memory into schemas of existence. These schemas can also be read as nets which can hold firmly but are permeable. Shanti considers these nets to be analogous to how we absorb and experience the external world and mediate it though our understanding and memory. Process-driven rules employed in the work are resonant with the societal constructs which often shape one’s place in the world. 

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