Kareena Solanki is an interdisciplinary artist, designer and educator based in Brooklyn, NY. She received her MFA in Interdisciplinary Studio Art from the School of Art, Design and Art History at JMU.

Statement

I create performance rituals that extend to film, photography, sculpture and installation. Materials in my work interplay between natural elements, crafted relics and found objects. The rituals embody slow repetitive movements, meditative loops and long-durational practices. I continually question how one can transcend into a spiritual realm in the daily, mundane existence. 

Every work begins from a state of play and is realised through slow, laborious crafting processes with metals, wood, clay, glass and fibres. The outcome is always unknown and reveals what the work is when witnessed in its liveness.