Art Centrix Space presents Naaku Tanti: Four Strings, a solo exhibition of works by Siri Devi Khandavilli, a US-based intermedia artist known for blending traditional Indian techniques such as Mysore painting with contemporary sculpture, video, and installation. This exhibition unfolds around Nāda, not as subject or metaphor, but as an underlying condition. In Indian philosophy, Nāda denotes a sustained field of sound that precedes melody or speech. Here, it names a way of thinking about practice: a continuous ground in which materials, labor, chance, and movement coexist without resolving into a single image or narrative.
The solo brings together a powerful body of sculptural works that bridge traditional training and contemporary material exploration. Rooted in form, craft, and material inquiry, the work reflects Khandavilli’s enduring engagement with coexistence over singularity: where many impulses, materials, and histories speak together without collapsing into one voice.
The title references the tanpura, the four-stringed classical Indian instrument central to Carnatic music, which the artist trained in from a young age. For Khandavilli, these “four strings” represent vibration before language; a subtle frequency that underlies matter, memory, labour, and perception. The works in the exhibition emerge from this sustained field of resonance.
Find out more about the show here.
