Ashwini Bhat, WISH YOU WERE HERE 希望你在

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In WISH YOU WERE HERE, an interactive performance inspired by the element of earth, artist Ashwini Bhat invites the public to join her in creating a collaborative ephemeral installation involving a tree, thread, and clay. The prompt is simple: call to mind someone or something you love, shape clay into a small offering, and thread it to the tree. We’ll begin and end this assemblage of intimate gift-objects with a question: Can we move through our world more tenderly, in a way that is open to other living and non-living beings who share this space with us?

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About Ashwini Bhat 
After thirty-five years in Southern India, transdisciplinary artist Ashwini Bhat now lives and works in the foothills of Sonoma Mountain, California. Coming from a background in literature and classical Indian dance, Bhat works in sculpture, ceramics, installation, and video, developing a unique visual language exploring the intersections between body and nature, self and other. Her work shows the influence of syncretic shrines and rituals and non-logocentric and non-Western metaphysical concepts of empathy for the non-human. In 2023, Bhat became a certified Naturalist at the Osborne Preserve, a research site for Sonoma State University’s Center for Environmental Inquiry. She is represented by Shoshana Wayne Gallery in Los Angeles, USA, and Project 88 in Mumbai, India.

 

《希望你在》是一個受五行元素”土“所啓發的互動藝術創作，藝術家 Ashwini Bhat 邀請公眾與她利用樹、線和黏土，一起創作小型藝術品。主題很簡單：就是想一個你所愛的人或事物，用按照心中所想，將黏土塑造成紀念品，然後用線把它掛在樹上。我們將以一個問題，開啓與總結這份私人小禮物：我們能否以更包容的態度，讓與我們共享這個世界的生物及非生物和諧地共存。

在印度南部生活了三十五年後，跨學科藝術家 Ashwini Bhat 現在在加州Sonoma縣的山麓生活和工作。在文學和印度古典舞蹈背景的熏陶下，Bhat從事雕塑、陶瓷、裝置和錄像創作，並發展出一種探索身體與大自然、自我與他人之間連結的獨特視覺語言。她的作品展現了融合神社（syncretic shrines）和儀式的影響力，以及在非語言與文字、非西方抽象概念中對非人類的同情。 2023 年，Bhat成為Osborne保護區受認證的博物學家，這是Sonoma州立大學環境學調查中心的研究場地。她是由美國洛杉磯的 Shoshana Wayne 畫廊和印度孟買的 Project 88 推薦。