Sashikant Thavudoz

In partnership with The Darling Foundry
More information about the India Residency Program

In 2012, the Darling Foundry established its first India Residency Program to benefit artists and the community in order to confront ideas and art practices not easily accessible and allowing artists to be inspired by new territories. This year, SAVAC is supporting this residency through a public showcase of the artist’s work while in residency in Canada. As part of his residency, Sashikant Thavudoz was invited by TATA Steel to visit its iron ore mine in Schefferville, QC. He will share his experience and describe his new body of work, informed by his interest in surveying the different methods he discovered during his stay in Schefferville.

“I use variety of materials in the construction and all of it deals with the specificity and relation to a particular site. As material comes attached with an already preconceived notion of physical characteristics and meanings my work disengage with the precondition of our understanding of the mundane and extends to the possibility of redefining our engagement with the everyday life. Using objects/ material in the work is challenging at many levels because it is not the conventional mediums of making art and at the same time the socially attributed meaning makes the works socially and politically potent device for the critique of the persisting practices. At the other hand it opens up new avenues for further interpretation of meaning of these unconventional mediums.” – Sashikanth Thavudoz