Ashvini Ray's work merges soft, rounded contours with taut, tightly stressed
surfaces to produce works whose materiality reflects the gradual
self-manifestation of natural forms. Through a process of the stretching and
straining of man-made materials and the use of repetition which aims to
infiltrate entire spaces, the work gives a sense of organically coming into
existence. Pressure and force converge with a defiance of gravity resulting in
a body of work which appears infinitely extendable.
This flirtation with infinite self-manifestation not only recalls the process by which a cell divides and seeks to re-create itself but comfortably fits within the conceptual parameters of synaptic function in the brain, the pathways created unconsciously by the individual in order to assemble time and place. Ray deliberately focuses on aesthetics, leaving the works conceptually open. It is this conceptual openness, which forces the viewer to negotiate their own pathways of association and traverse their own endlessly mutable synaptic function in order to create an individual reading.
Ashvini Ray is a Berlin based artist born in Sydney, Australia in 1990. In 2011, she completed a Bachelor of Fine Arts, at Sydney University, Sydney College of the Arts.