What to Expect

Karan Shrestha, one of the roundtable artists of the “The Elemental You” exhibition, invites participants to connect with rocks. In reverence, through descriptions, from stories, the rocks open up to wonder on being held, and heard. And what do rocks tell? Considering this question, participants will attempt making objects from organic matter and human-made things that hold (remnants of) worlds beyond humankind.

Bio

Karan Shrestha’s practice includes drawings, sculpture, photographs, films and texts that speak to the complex, entangled relations of Nepal’s recent history. Shrestha presents works that are an archive of the terrain, political histories, transient memories and a speculative world that suspends reality, to question notions of progress, while drawing connections to the ecological, cultural and socio-economical dimensions of Nepali life.

Shrestha has participated in numerous group exhibitions around the globe and has shown works in many institutions including Tai Kwun Contemporary (Hong Kong); Jameel Arts Centre, UAE (2022); Kathmandu Triennale, Nepal (2017 & 2022); Museo Madre, Italy (2021); 10th Asia Pacific Triennial, QAGOMA, Australia (2021); Asian Art Biennale, Taiwan (2021); Dhaka Art Summit, Bangladesh (2020); Yinchuan Biennale, China (2018); and Serendipity Arts Festival (2017 & 2022), among others.