The Physics behind Art

In mid-August this year,Kulkarni had sent the application for the competition along with the photographs of her latest art show ‘Alienation of Space’. “On October 3,the authorities called me and notified me about my name being included in the top 20s list,” recalls Kulkarni,who is already working on her next project which will be showcased in the India Art Fair to be held in the Capital in January 2013.

Ever since she graduated from Abhinav Kala Mahavidyalaya,Pune,with a degree in arts in 2005,she has worked on developing experimental art forms that involve her own derivation from formulas that define the laws of physics. “I love physics as a subject,it comes to me as naturally as art. It was when I was only three years old that I received my first prize for an art competition. There was never a dilemma to choose between art and physics because I did not want to get into a hard core science-based career. I decided to do justice to both passions and make my love for physics an inspiration for my art,” says Kulkarni.

Her first work as an independent artist was titled ‘Noise Room’ and was displayed at the Khol Art workshop in Delhi,around seven years back. She had created a chamber consisting of five rooms based on different themes like surveillance,television bar-code,white-noise,newspapers and a dark room. Her concepts combined space and violence as well as time and silence. “The audience had to walk through the five rooms. The first room had television sets playing the news,followed by a room full of newspapers and then again televisions that displayed the multi-coloured bar-codes and white-noise. The last room was blank and dark,followed by the exit. My audience is a part of my art,that is why they need to walk through the chamber and experience it,” describes 30 year-old Kulkarni.

In ‘Alienation of Space’ that got her entry into the competition’s merit list,the artist had placed different forms of sculptures in a room which were given kinetic movements controlled through a remote by the artists herself when the audience walked in the space. Gearing up for the exhibition that will decide the top three artists from the list of 20,she has decided on working on a sequel to ‘Alienation of Space’.