Duration/Date/Time: A two-hour daily durational practice during the gallery's open hours.
From Jan 2025 to Oct 2026, Shruti installed a sheet of paper by the stairway in her apartment in Columbus, documenting with pastel the daily motion of climbing and descending her apartment stairs as she entered and exited her home. Much of Shruti’s practice stems from a dedication to physical repetition in drawing, sewing, or documentation through photography and video. Through these repetitive acts and the accumulation of material, she creates meaning, eventually intervening upon the work and identifying a moment in which the routine must be broken or changed.
In this work, she intervenes using reductive and additive processes, cutting into the work and building a loom that extends from floor to ceiling in front of it For the duration of the exhibition, Shruti plans to visit the site of installation every day to create a weaving in response to the drawing that lies behind the loom. The insistence upon this daily act of returning to the site to weave becomes ritualistic and calls back to the ways in which the drawing was made in the first place.
The intention of the work is not to re/create a functional object but to extend the metaphors embedded within the process of weaving—tacit knowledge, interconnectedness, and a call to slow down and pay close attention.
This event is part of the MFA Thesis Exhibition, Waiting for the Light to Change.
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