The artist’s new work explores the possibilities that are contained within nature.

 “In the scientific realm, as the rate of genetic modification accelerates, the boundary of form and function blurs; these chimeras become more of a possibility of what could be.” This is how artist Rohini Devasher sums up her work.

Mumbai based Project 88 hosted the first solo of her works, titled ‘BREED’ in April 2009. It comprised digital prints, videos and drawings.

Her work, as mentioned above, explores the possibilities that are contained within nature , as organisms are born, breed and then multiply. However, she has moved beyond to create creatures, which draw upon and morph elements of the zoological, human, mechanical and botanical worlds.

Standing at the threshold of science, fiction and art, these creatures tend to pulsate with primordial life, simultaneously acting as precursors to a futuristic space. Rohini Devasher’s imagery and practice well mimic the processes of nature that has an increasing complexity inbuilt through layers and recursion.

The artist engages with the idea of the archetypal plant from Goethe. This intellectual concept describes ‘one basic form’. Within it lies the potential for endless transformation. By this manifoldness gets created out of oneness. Her videos carry this exploration of morphology further.

They bring into play the generative qualities of video-feedback, and investigate self-reflexivity – especially when understood in the context of something, which constantly recreates itself.

(Image courtesy: Project 88)